Michael Klare: The Race For What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources

The World is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion – a crisis that goes beyond “peak oil” to encompass shortages of industrial metals, critical minerals, water, and arable land. This frenzy of extreme exploration is not only threatening the environment but also igniting new border disputes, threatening military confrontation. The only way to avoid disaster, argues Klare, will be to drastically alter our patterns of consumption – a crucial task that is already the greatest challenge of this century.