AS ECOLOGICAL AND social movements gear-up for the ‘great transition’ demanded by the new age of climate change, there is a tendency to ignore the geo-political realities of rising militarism in response to peak oil conditions, as the world’s industrial powers struggle for control over increasingly scarce and expensive petroleum resources on the planet.
Globally speaking, the centre of this new wave of militarisation is the United States, symbolised, of course, by the invasion of Iraq to gain control of that country’s lucrative oil reserves. As the world’s largest consumer of petroleum, the US ...
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