Any crash course to a broad understanding of the scale, complexity and urgency of the climate crisis should include this informative, one-hour lecture by journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian, Gwynne Dyer, based on his new book, Climate Wars (video by TVO and recorded at the University of Toronto, Dec. 8, 2008).

There's who we (rich nations) think we are and what we think we stand for.

Then there's reality.

"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
~ A.J.P. Taylor (British Historian, 1906-1990)

Guest post by ecoSanity.org Kindred Defender, Dr. Peter D. Carter, M.D.; comment on:

The Pentagon v. Peak Oil;
How wars of the future may be fought just to run the machines that fight them
by Michael T. Klare; TomDispatch; June 17, 2007

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As explained on Exxon's revealing website, the world passed 'Peak Easy Oil' in 2005.

There is as much oil left as has been produced to date - that is 'difficult oil'- but the oil corporations are switching rapidly to adopt new technologies to get even more oil out of the ground and sea beds.

The market (excluding environmental costs) does not work for us on oil because, as oil gets more expensive, it attracts more investment.