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).

"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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