A growing chorus of technologists and futurists now argue that scarcity is ending. The future may be post-old-scarcity but it will not be post-scarcity.

Food scarcity—the unreliable access to adequate, nutritious food—affects approximately 44 million Americans, including 13 million children. While hunger’s physical consequences receive significant ...

An irrigation system is used to water a field because of drought, near Feldkirchen, Germany, April 25, 2020 (DPA photo by Frank Hoermann via AP Images). A second, more mundane challenge for Europe’s ...

For much of the past three decades, carbon has been the main focus of climate policy. But as we head into 2026, a new crisis is tightening its grip: water scarcity. According to Ernst & Young's 2026 ...