Green Lecture: Michael Klare on the Race for Resources
Channel: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Date: 12/06/2013

The industrial nations and enterprises are facing a huge challange: The natural resources that are essential for modern industry are finite and obtaining them has serious consequences. Today, most of these resources can only be found in places difficult to reach. Oil is searched for in the arctic or the deep sea. Gas is extracted by the contriversial method of "fracking", and many important metals like cupper are being mined in crises regions. The global race for the last remainng resources has begun.

In this talk, which he held in conjunction with our series "Green Lectures", Michael T. Klare, professor for peace and world security studies at Hampshire College (Massachusetts) and author of the book "The Race for What's Left", analyzes the serious consequences caused by the run for the last frontiers of the planet in a global context. 

The talk recorded on June 12 is opened by a German introduction by Barbara Unmüßig, head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.