Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow the passage. Your answers to these questions should be based on the passage only.
What climate change will undeniably cause or amplify events that hasten the reduction of resources? Competition over these diminishing resources would ensue in the form of political or even violent conflict. Resource-based conflicts have rarely been overt and are thus difficult to isolate. Instead they take on veneers that appear more politically palatable. Conflicts over resources like water are often cloaked in the guise of identity or ideology.
What does the above passage imply?