Synopsis
"As Michael Klare makes clear in this powerful book, the heads of our corporate empires have decided to rip apart the planet in one last burst of profiteering. If you want to understand the next decade, I fear you better read this book."---Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion---a crisis that encompasses...
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24 December 2012
9781250023971Reviews
“A first-rate, well-researched wake-up call.” —The Christian Science Monitor
“Outstanding…Exhaustively researched, beautifully written, and convincingly argued.” —The Huffington Post
“Stunning.” —Rolling Stone
“Reading this book, it's hard not to think about postapocalyptic fiction….Think Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, and, most recent, Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games. Yet novelists often skip over the messy parts along the road to dystopia. It's scary to think that Klare, far from crying wolf, might be providing the sordid details in real time.” —Science News
“If you think oil is the only major thing we're running short of, think again.…Crisp, authoritative…A guidebook to wars to come.” —Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost
