Fight the Empire on 05/02/13

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Thu, 05/02/2013 - 9:30am to 10:00am
How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion

Host Per Fagereng speaks with Michael Klare, who offers a hair-raising look at how two trends on the planet -- growing resource scarcity and climate change -- are creating a formula for future disruption, social unrest, state collapse, and in the long run cataclysm.  

According to TomDispatch Media Alert:  “Resource shock” is a new term in our lexicon, but you’re going to become familiar with it soon enough on a planet that will be in increasing disarray -- Michael T. Klare, “Entering a Resource-Shock World, How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion.”

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175690/

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