Week 10: June 3. ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES TO AVOID ENERGY WARS.

A search for answers to resource dependency, especially oil and other fossil fuels.

Energy Future

• Proto-blocks
• Klare’s last chapter sounds a hopeful note if the world collaborate rather than competes
• 2 factors of nation-states
  • Nationalism
  • Cooperation – like the outer-space collaboration

Klare’s Predictions

• Barry thinks that Klare tends to over-simplify proto-blocs and cooperation.
• Klare concerned about a new cold-war sucking up a lot of resources.
• Cold war due to expanding nationalism, economic trauma, climate change
• Painful transition from 2012 to 2050
• Less local government – more centralization
• Less democracy
• US and China use 36% of the worlds energy

Commonalities Between US and China

• Both dependent on oil
• China more dependent on coal
• China will be #2 world power in 10 or 15 years
• Participating in talks

China

• We don’t want to get in a war with China because they are becoming very powerful