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Land, Energy & Water

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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.

Latest Articles

New Energy Frontiers Expand Global Connections

The electrification of poor, rural communities will mean a more equitable distribution of the gains from globalization – ultimately giving the poor a voice in national or international decision-making processes, write Adriana Valencia and Georg Caspary.

A Line in the Sand

Georgia's disastrous attack on South Ossetia has given Russia a perfect excuse to roll back US control of Azerbaijan's oil supply, argues Dilip Hiro.

Peak Oil and Energy Imperialism

The geopolitics of oil concerns a strategy of maximum extraction by any means possible, presenting multiple global threats - and the crucial challenge facing humanity of weaning the world from its excessive dependence on fossil fuels, writes John Bellamy Foster.

The Current Oil Shock: No Relief in Sight

With oil supplies peaking in the coming years and uranium following a similar path, the weight of humanity's needs will increasingly fall on coal - and our salvation lies in finding a way back to the pre-ICE era, writes Dilip Hiro.

Warnings of a Global Land Grab

The relentless demand for raw materials will lead to the destruction of the world’s forests - and result in a global land grab that will leave millions of forest people impoverished and homeless, a new study warns.

It's the Oil, Stupid!

U.S. presidential candidates need to seriously discuss the role of oil in the Iraq invasion, even if they cannot acknowledge what it really constituted - a supreme international crime, writes Noam Chomsky.

The US Gas Garrison

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.

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