Michael Klare
—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion—a crisis that encompasses shortages of oil and coal, copper and cobalt, water and arable land. With all of the Earth’s accessible areas already being exploited, 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 food-scarce nations. Read more…
From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power. Read more...
From the oilfields of Saudi Arabia to the Nile delta, from the shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the pipelines of Central Asia, Resource Wars looks at the growing impact of resource scarcity on the military policies of nations. Read more...
In Blood and Oil, Michael Klare concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States—its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer. Read more...
A documentary film version of Klare’s 2005 Blood and Oil, featuring archival footage of American presidents and other top leaders asserting the need to use military force to ensure access to Middle Eastern oil. Demonstrates conclusively that the Gulf War of 1990-91 and other U.S. military actions in the Persian Gulf area have been driven by the geopolitics of oil. Narrated by Klare and produced by the Media Education Foundation. Learn more & order...
Michael Klare is the author of fourteen books, including: Resource Wars (2001); Blood and Oil (2004); Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet (2008); and The Race for What’s Left (2012). Read more...