Michael T. Klare, a TomDispatch regular, is the five-college professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and a senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association. He is the author of 15 books, including the just-published All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change (Metropolitan Books).
Climate Change Will Supersede Everything
Why should climate change be included in a Department of Defense report on security developments in relation to the People’s Republic?
January 23, 2023
What If the U.S. and China Really Cooperated on Climate Change?
What if the two countries moved beyond simply talking and started working together to champion the radical lowering of global carbon emissions?
November 28, 2022
The Ukraine War’s Collateral Damage
To have any chance of success in limiting global warming to tolerable levels, the climate-action movement will somehow have to overturn an elite consensus on the importance of geopolitical competition — or else.
May 24, 2022
Would a “Cold” War Be the Best News Around?
Geopolitics — the relentless struggle for control over foreign lands, ports, cities, mines, railroads, oil fields, and other sources of material and military might — has governed the behavior of major powers for centuries.
March 8, 2022
China, 2049
One way or another, however, we can be reasonably certain of one thing: as the term makes all too clear, the old Cold War format for military policy no longer holds, not on such an overheating planet.
August 30, 2021
The Beginning of the End for Oil?
When it comes to energy, what was expected to take at least two decades in the IEA’s most optimistic scenario may now occur in just a few years. It turns out that the impact of Covid-19 is reshaping the world energy equation, along with so much else, in unexpected ways.
May 13, 2020