Fun fact back in the 1800s we had water wars here in California because farmers used up all the groundwater like assholes and started stealing water from other counties.
Greenland is similarly related to climate change, ice melting allows new arctic shipping lanes opening, and minerals emerging that were previously difficult to access. Seems perfectly inline with the general concept imo
Water wars is a reference to a SciFi theme about scarcity of fresh water causing conflict. Usually as a result of climate change.
Asimov and JG Ballard are two of the better known earlier ones.
Several of your examples are just territorial expansion/control which is standard human behaviour for many millenia.
So India/Pakistan yes, South China Sea no. Turkey/Syria yes. Greenland no (control of Arctic and access to minerals)
Fun fact back in the 1800s we had water wars here in California because farmers used up all the groundwater like assholes and started stealing water from other counties.
Greenland is similarly related to climate change, ice melting allows new arctic shipping lanes opening, and minerals emerging that were previously difficult to access. Seems perfectly inline with the general concept imo
Sure, climate change is the driver, but it’s not a fight over fresh water.
The water wars was always a quite literal phrase