Race for What's Left The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources

Name: Race for What's Left The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
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ISBN: 9781250023971

ISBN-10: 1250023971

ISBN-13: 9781250023971

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael T. Klare

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The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion - a crisis that encompasses shortages of oil, coal and natural gas, copper and cobalt, water and arable land. With all of the Earth's habitable areas already in use, the desperate hunt for supplies has now reached the final frontiers. The Race for What's Left takes us from the Arctic to war zones to deep ocean floors, from a Russian submarine planting the country's flag under the North Pole to the large-scale buying up of African farmland by Saudi Arabia and other nations. With resource extraction growing more complex, the environmental risks are becoming increasingly severe - and the intense search for dwindling supplies is…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 12/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.48" wide x 8.19" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Michael T. Klare is Director of the Five College Program in Peace & World Security Studies in Amherst, Mass., & author of numerous books on the changing nature of warfare, including "Low-Intensity Warfare", "Word Security", & "Rogue States" & "Nuclear Outlaws". He lives in Northhampton, Massachusetts.



Introduction



Driven by Depletion



Deep-Offshore Oil and Gas



Invading the Arctic



Tar Sands, Shale Gas, and Other Unconventional Hydrocarbons



Mining's New Frontiers



Rare Earths and Other Critical Minerals



Global "Land Grabs" and the Struggle for Food



Shaping the Course of History


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index