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Pro-Life
06/12/16 8:33 PM
#277 RE: Pro-Life #276
It doesn't take long to draw up some crisis that could damage the global economy. China's slowdown, ever increasing emerging-market debt, political instability in the Middle East, and the breakup of the European Union all pose serious risks. But none of those worries compare to the real danger, according to Joe Quinlan, strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch's US Trust. He wrote (emphasis added):
They all represent known unknowns—or externalities already acknowledged and discounted by the capital markets. That's the good news. The bad news: None of the hazards just mentioned are as remotely as threatening to the global economy as water-related climate change risks, a dynamic little understood by investors.
None other than India, the newly anointed growth champion of the world economy, is in the grips of a two-year drought that threatens the economic livelihood of more than 300 million people. Because water levels in India's 91 reservoirs are at their lowest levels in decades, agricultural output has declined, while electricity generation has plummeted. Dams are parched, factories are operating below capacity, and the lack of safe drinking water has put the health of millions of people at risk. Water wars have erupted between states, making the crisis all that more acute for the national government. Add it all up and the world's strongest emerging market is being laid low by a climate-induced water crisis.
Global climate change—or the increasing frequency and severity of droughts, floods and violent storms—has added another dangerous element and layer to the world's mounting water crisis. This slow-motion crisis of the past few decades is now accelerating, creating plenty of risks to global growth but also multiple investment opportunities.