Catch The Race For Whats Left: The Global Scramble For The Worlds Last Resources Originated By Michael T. Klare Rendered As Print

overview, but not too much depth, This is a frightening book, I've long known that resource depletion was a serious problem, but seeing the data makes it clear how little time we have left, Resource wars are already being fought, It's just a matter of time before major nations join the battle, With America consuming so much of the world's resources, other nations are going to start proclaiming us to be an enemy of the continuation of the human species, A bit dated, but nevertheless a useful tour of how major powers are trying to plan for future resource scarcity, sitelinkKOBOBOOKS Pretty informative, just a little repetitious in places, Didn't actually talk about water specifically as a separate resource should have Hadn't heard the term ' post soil ' like ' post oil ' before, good one A good, if repetitive, look at how we're tearing our worldand ourselvesapart I really enjoyed this book for the firstpages or so.
I thought it did a great job of bringing to light the issues associated with oncoming resource wars and the fact that our energy, metals, and available land resources are all suffering a dramatic decline all at once.

The problem with the book, however, was that it read as if the author combined a number of essays on the same topic into a book without realizing that books are typically read cover to cover.
Each section of the book reexplains the same thing as if the author doesn't realize that the reader was given the same informationpages prior, It is highly repetitive.
I ended the book feeling disappointed that it wasn't better written because it started off so strong and it was initially such an interesting read, I still feel like I learned something from it and I'm glad that I picked it up but it could have been written in a third of the pages and been a much better read.
The thesis is clear after the firstdozen pages at most, The rest is a grim elaboration, To organize a book after that fashion demands much of the writing, This one succeeds less well than "Shock Doctrine" amp "Tropic of Chaos," both of which held my attention with the writing amp made me glad, during amp after the read, that I stuck with it.
The writing can do this too well making it unendurable to read not because it's below standards but because it's TOO strong, My goto example is Mike Davis's stupefying "Planet of Slums, " What a brick wall of words! Could have been writen in a tenth of its length, Fuzy at times but well researched, "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 depletiona 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 largescale buying up of African farmland by Saudi Arabia and other foodscarce nations.
With resource extraction growing more difficult, the environmental risks are becoming increasingly severeand the intense search for dwindling supplies is igniting new conflicts and territorial disputes, The only way out, Michael T, Klare argues, is to alter our consumption patterns altogether, a crucial task that will be the greatest challenge of the coming century, The perennial problem of resource scarcity is reaching a critically dangerous point, with potentially devastating environmental and geopolitical consequences, according to Klare's latest book, The industrialization of developing nations, particularly in East Asia, has created a unprecedented level of demand for a variety of resources, while the supply of such resources is simultaneously reaching a point of diminishing returns.
With easytoaccess oil and gas reserves already exhausted, energy companies are now compelled to access new sources in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth, such as deep water offshore sites in the Gulf of Mexico or the Arctic Circle, with increasing risk and expense.
Fossil fuels are not the only dwindling resource, as

numerous minerals with industrial or technological uses are also in increasingly rare supply and high demand, and food shortages will likely plague the developing world to an unprecedented degree in the coming decades as the population continues to grow.
A sobering read. lord help us. Adopted for class, fall. Klare is now an academic, but he previously worked in Washington's policy world as a journalist, That means he writes effectively about interesting and important topics, Indeed, I have frequently used Klare's books in my security and environment classes: Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws: America's Search for a New Foreign Policy, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of Americas Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleumand various editions of his World Security edited volume.
However, I was a bit disappointed in the organization of this book, It examines the "race for what's left" of scare oil, mineral, and land resources, but includes dozens of short subsections on specific situations, These are mostly organized by geography, A more effective books might have focused on some central common concerns: the socalled resource curse, great power competition for scarce resources, the environmental risks of explointing marginal territories, etc.
A satisfactory summary of the worlds upcoming resource shortages, and the main focal points for what's left, Many previously ignored areas in great power geopolitics could suddenly become flash points,

Shale oil, deep water mining, rare earth elements, food supply, It's all there. An excellent point to begin discussion, Competently written rebuttal of the idea that technology is about to make resource shortages a relic of the past,

Onlyas book comes off as a compendium of various essays writepages about the current state of oil production, Next chapter,pages on rare metals, Then, an essay about agriculture, And so on. You can hardly tell this book even has an author, it feels like an assembly by committee, Which is fine

But the book has no core, there's no context, no narrative string tying it together, Which resources are most vulnerable, How will the oil/nat gas shortages affect agriculture, How will the pressures on rare earths impact the energy picture, These are the sorts of subjects I was hoping Klare would expound on, instead, we get a very dry though thoroughly informative look at various resources and the state of play for them going forward.
pgkey to whole book A yawning amount of factsemphasis on the word 'yawning', Goede, pijnlijke analyse voor hoe het er aan toe gaat in de wereld op gebied van grondstoffen, Inmiddels flink wat jaren oud, maar het lijkt alsof we er nog niets van hebben geleerd, Lastig om te lezen omdat het zout in een open wond lijkt te strooien As someone interested in our food system and the global ramifications of our food choices, I found the chapter 'Global "Land Grabs" and the Struggle for Food' very interesting! It gave me new insight into the way the land on our planet is currently being divided up who are the players driving land use and efficiencies or lack of efficiencies, who are making the investments, who will be loosing out.


It describes the big picture of land use as it relates to animal agriculture that is not written about much, When you realize how fast investors private, government, corporate work to make a profit and exploit resources without regulation and people's rights and the environment considered it's mind boggling that this isn't common knowledge.
You know how you can protect those precious vanishing resources, Michael Klare Stop repeating yourself and make this apage book, Cool stuff about shale oil, though, Read this for a research paper/thesis, Pretty boring and unmemorable, with an unastounding conclusion, Not worth the scorn of astar review, but I wouldn't recommend this, Peak oil has been proven wrong, right Klare and I aren't convinced, These newly discovered reserves almost always come from more remote, more dangerous, and more environmentally sensitive areas of the world which means that they are far more expensive to extract than conventional supplies.
The ultimate reason that the global economy has stalled out is that its engine is literally running out of gas, Eye opening account of a race for what remains of the world's resources, A great topic of discussion, this book presents facts on large investment firms and governments razing the world over for rare earths, peak 'soil' in Africa, and arctic circle mining operations.
Quick read, and chapterswere dry economics, If nothing, read the last half of the book,

Many of the investments cited began after the great financial crisis of, leading me to believe the race for what's left is often investors taking advantage of bargain basement commodity prices.
For this reason, and the eventual dated nature of the material, I am only giving three, The author presents a strong one sided case, I would have preferred to see a little more debate given his keen intellect, .