Wendy Barnaby is hasty in her conclusion that water shortages can and will be resolved through international trade and economic development. She predicts that nations will be able to adapt to water shortages as they develop, by switching to industries other than agriculture and by importing their food from elsewhere. But this assumes both that developing nations will be able to afford food and that food itself is not also a limited resource being threatened by global warming. Barnaby's implication that poorer nations will become wealthier in the coming decades is at odds with the global reality of an increasing gap between rich and poor (Report on the World rnSocial Situation United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; 2005) and with the repeated failure of such development plans (J. Ferguson Global Shadows Duke Univ. Press; 2006).
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机译：温迪·巴尔纳比（Wendy Barnaby）仓促得出结论，水资源短缺可以而且将通过国际贸易和经济发展得到解决。她预测，随着国家的发展，他们将能够通过转向农业以外的其他行业以及从其他地方进口粮食来适应缺水问题。但这既假设发展中国家将有能力负担粮食，又假设粮食本身也不是受到全球变暖威胁的有限资源。巴纳比（Barnaby）暗示贫穷国家在未来几十年内将变得更加富有，这与全球现实相矛盾，即贫富差距日益扩大的全球现实（联合国经济和社会事务部《世界社会状况报告》； 2005年）以及屡屡失败这样的发展计划（J. Ferguson Global Shadows Duke Univ。Press； 2006年）。
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