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conflict

Read: “Far North”

an “eco-fi” novel by Marcel Theroux

“The growing demand for oil is leading to a growing global conflict in which the Gulf War, the 9/11 attack, and the war in Iraq are just the first three skirmishes.”

—Amos Nur, professor emeritus of geophysics, Stanford University

Read: “Zero Point of Systemic Collapse”

article by Chris Hedges in Adbusters, February 2010

The Flash Point

American Security Project blog addresses climate change sometimes

The New Security Beat

a blog by the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

After oil wars, then green wars?

Even if we wean ourselves off oil, there are still plenty of things we could fight over

Alan Greenspan says Iraq war was over oil

“Everyone knows the Iraq war is largely about oil” Greenspan writes in his memoir

“National Security and Climate Change in Perspective” by Campbell & Parthemore

Chapter 1 of “Climatic Cataclysm”

“The Devil’s Excrement” by Jerry Useem

Fortune, 3 February 2003

“The Devil’s Excrement” by Moisés Naím

Foreign Policy, August 2009

bookshelf

books I've read on failure & grace

The World Without Us
The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man
Zeitoun
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Tipping Point
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World


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