The three essential resources of land, energy and water are connected by the same crisis of inequality driven by increasing privatization and corporate control. While universal provision remains an eminently practical goal, it requires a shift in global priorities and wide-scale redistribution through a system of international sharing monitored by an effective and representative United Nations.
Twenty-eight years since the Carter Doctrine was established, the time has come to
demote petroleum and stand down the troops, writes Michael T. Klare.
We do not yet know the dominant energy source of
the post-petroleum era, but it must revolve around renewable,
climate-friendly and domestically-produced supplies, writes Michael T. Klare.
Despite contrary views from economists, the soaring price of oil is
due to one outstanding factor: speculation. This sobering picture
calls for new licensing regulations limiting oil-market participation,
writes Thomas Palley.
It's time to embrace the huge challenge of weaning society from its
addiction to 'black gold', writes Dick Nichols, through unions and
environmentalists taking a united stand against the Big Oil corporations.
Peak oil theory is unscientific, unrealistic, and perhaps even fraudulent, writes Ismael
Hossein-zadeh - and there's more behind wars in the Middle East than simply Big Oil interests.