Reviews
Reading this book, it's hard not to think about postapocalyptic fiction....Think Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, and, most recent, Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games. Yet novelists often skip over the messy parts along the road to dystopia. It's scary to think that Klare, far from crying wolf, might be providing the sordid details in real time., If you think oil is the only major thing we're running short of, think again....Crisp, authoritative...A guidebook to wars to come., "A first-rate, well-researched wake-up call... Klare has identified the problem in vivid detail: as Willie Nelson once averred, ,Turn off the lights, the party's over.'"-David Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor "As Michael Klare makes clear in this powerful book, the heads of our corporate empires have decided to rip apart the planet in one last burst of profiteering. If you want to understand the next decade, I fear you better read this book."-Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth, "A first-rate, well-researched wake-up call_ Klare has identified the problem in vivid detail: as Willie Nelson once averred, ,Turn off the lights, the party's over.'"-David Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor "As Michael Klare makes clear in this powerful book, the heads of our corporate empires have decided to rip apart the planet in one last burst of profiteering. If you want to understand the next decade, I fear you better read this book."-Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth, "A first-rate, well-researched wake-up call."--- The Christian Science Monitor "Outstanding…Exhaustively researched, beautifully written, and convincingly argued."--- The Huffington Post "Stunning."--- Rolling Stone "Reading this book, it's hard not to think about postapocalyptic fiction….Think Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, and, most recent, Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games. Yet novelists often skip over the messy parts along the road to dystopia. It's scary to think that Klare, far from crying wolf, might be providing the sordid details in real time."--- Science News "If you think oil is the only major thing we're running short of, think again.…Crisp, authoritative…A guidebook to wars to come."---Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost, "A first-rate, well-researched wake-up call."--- The Christian Science Monitor "As Michael Klare makes clear in this powerful book, the heads of our corporate empires have decided to rip apart the planet in one last burst of profiteering. If you want to understand the next decade, I fear you better read this book."---Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth "Outstanding…Exhaustively researched, beautifully written, and convincingly argued."--- The Huffington Post "Reading this book, it's hard not to think about postapocalyptic fiction….Think Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, and, most recent, Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games. Yet novelists often skip over the messy parts along the road to dystopia. It's scary to think that Klare, far from crying wolf, might be providing the sordid details in real time."--- Science News "If you think oil is the only major thing we're running short of, think again.…Crisp, authoritative…A guidebook to wars to come."---Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost, "A first-rate, well-researched wake-up call." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Outstanding...Exhaustively researched, beautifully written, and convincingly argued." -- The Huffington Post "Stunning." -- Rolling Stone "Reading this book, it's hard not to think about postapocalyptic fiction....Think Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, and, most recent, Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games. Yet novelists often skip over the messy parts along the road to dystopia. It's scary to think that Klare, far from crying wolf, might be providing the sordid details in real time." -- Science News "If you think oil is the only major thing we're running short of, think again....Crisp, authoritative...A guidebook to wars to come." -- Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost
