Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-326) and index.
Contents:
Altered states -- Seeking more, finding less -- The "Chindia" challenge -- An energy juggernaught -- Draining the Caspian -- The global assault on Africa's vital resources -- Encroaching on an "American lake" -- Crossing a threshold -- Averting catastrophe.
Summary:
Analyzes how control of the world's diminishing sources of energy and natural resources will result in a future of new alliances and new global threats in which finite sources of oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, and copper will be up for grabs.
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