Reading the news that US Army generals are urging US President George W Bush to cut down greenhouse gases seem too extreme. However, I think their argument may have some merit.

It warns that over the next 30 to 40 years, there will be conflicts over water resources, as well as increased instability resulting from rising sea levels and global warming-related refugees.

“The chaos that results can be an incubator of civil strife, genocide and the growth of terrorism,” the 35-page report predicts.

Writing in the report, Gen Zinni, a former commander of US Central Command, says: “It’s not hard to make the connection between climate change and instability, or climate change and terrorism.”

Their timing of 30 years could be too early, but there could be conflicts if not war over natural resources including Water.