⛏️ Resource Conflicts

Examinations of the wars, disputes, and power struggles that erupt when essential resources become contested ground between competing interests.

The Power of Geography

by Tim Marshall • 2021

From the Sahel to low Earth orbit, ten regions where geography is shaping the next flashpoints.

4.19

26k+

🌍 Geopolitics 🏛️ International Relations ⛽ Energy Security

The Power of Geography 88%

From the Sahel to low Earth orbit, ten regions where geography is shaping the next flashpoints.

by Tim Marshall 2021

4.19

26k+ ratings

🌍 Geopolitics 🏛️ International Relations ⛽ Energy Security

The Big Thirst

by Charles Fishman • 2010

For a century, water was too cheap to notice. That era ended, and we didn't see it coming.

3.94

2k+

🏜️ Water Scarcity 🏗️ Water Infrastructure 🏛️ Water Politics

The Big Thirst 88%

For a century, water was too cheap to notice. That era ended, and we didn't see it coming.

by Charles Fishman 2010

3.94

2k+ ratings

🏜️ Water Scarcity 🏗️ Water Infrastructure 🏛️ Water Politics

Where the Water Goes

by David Owen • 2017

The Colorado River keeps 36 million alive. Legal claims on its water outnumber the actual gallons.

3.93

3k+

🏜️ American West 💧 Water Scarcity ⚖️ Water Rights

Where the Water Goes 88%

The Colorado River keeps 36 million alive. Legal claims on its water outnumber the actual gallons.

by David Owen 2017

3.93

3k+ ratings

🏜️ American West 💧 Water Scarcity ⚖️ Water Rights

Earth Democracy

by Vandana Shiva • 2005

The enclosure of common land never ended. It just moved to seeds, water, and biodiversity.

3.97

749

🍽️ Food Politics 🌍 Anti-Globalization ⚖️ Environmental Justice

Earth Democracy 88%

The enclosure of common land never ended. It just moved to seeds, water, and biodiversity.

by Vandana Shiva 2005

3.97

749 ratings

🍽️ Food Politics 🌍 Anti-Globalization ⚖️ Environmental Justice

The Rare Metals War

by Guillame Pitron • 2018

Your electric car runs on metals that leave toxic wastelands and enrich an authoritarian superpower.

4.04

1k+

⚡ Energy Transition ⛏️ Resource Extraction 🔗 Supply Chains

The Rare Metals War 88%

Your electric car runs on metals that leave toxic wastelands and enrich an authoritarian superpower.

by Guillame Pitron 2018

4.04

1k+ ratings

⚡ Energy Transition ⛏️ Resource Extraction 🔗 Supply Chains

Prisoners of Geography

by Tim Marshall • 2015

Geography ties presidents' hands more than ideology. The map cornering Napoleon is cornering Putin.

4.19

119k+

🌍 Geopolitics 🛢️ Natural Resources ⚔️ Military Strategy

Prisoners of Geography 88%

Geography ties presidents' hands more than ideology. The map cornering Napoleon is cornering Putin.

by Tim Marshall 2015

4.19

119k+ ratings

🌍 Geopolitics 🛢️ Natural Resources ⚔️ Military Strategy

Behind the Green Mask

by Rosa Koire • 2011

A veteran appraiser found that green policies are a UN blueprint to abolish private property.

4.28

365

🗺️ Land Use Policy 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Agenda 21

Behind the Green Mask 87%

A veteran appraiser found that green policies are a UN blueprint to abolish private property.

by Rosa Koire 2011

4.28

365 ratings

🗺️ Land Use Policy 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Agenda 21

The Oil Curse

by Michael L. Ross • 2012

How petroleum creates autocrats, fuels rebellions, and shrinks women's economic power.

3.96

210

🛢️ Resource Curse 🏛️ Petro-States 💸 Dutch Disease

The Oil Curse 87%

How petroleum creates autocrats, fuels rebellions, and shrinks women's economic power.

by Michael L. Ross 2012

3.96

210 ratings

🛢️ Resource Curse 🏛️ Petro-States 💸 Dutch Disease

The War Below

by Ernest Scheyder • 2024

Green energy requires mining. A sacred mountain, a rare flower, and the tradeoffs we keep ignoring.

3.82

2k+

⚒️ Critical Minerals 🔗 Mineral Supply Chains ⛏️ Resource Extraction

The War Below 87%

Green energy requires mining. A sacred mountain, a rare flower, and the tradeoffs we keep ignoring.

by Ernest Scheyder 2024

3.82

2k+ ratings

⚒️ Critical Minerals 🔗 Mineral Supply Chains ⛏️ Resource Extraction

Confronting Collapse

by Michael C. Ruppert • 2009

Cheap oil made modern life possible. It is peaking, and nothing can fully replace it.

3.83

313

⛽ Peak Oil 🪨 Resource Depletion 💹 Energy Economics

Confronting Collapse 87%

Cheap oil made modern life possible. It is peaking, and nothing can fully replace it.

by Michael C. Ruppert 2009

3.83

313 ratings

⛽ Peak Oil 🪨 Resource Depletion 💹 Energy Economics

All Our Relations

by Winona LaDuke • 1999

How Native lands became a dumping ground for 16 nuclear waste sites, and the fight back.

4.37

711

🌿 Indigenous Rights 🌍 Environmental Justice 🏞️ Land Rights

All Our Relations 87%

How Native lands became a dumping ground for 16 nuclear waste sites, and the fight back.

by Winona LaDuke 1999

4.37

711 ratings

🌿 Indigenous Rights 🌍 Environmental Justice 🏞️ Land Rights

The Future of Geography

by Tim Marshall • 2023

Space is the new geography of power: every conflict below is replicating in orbit.

3.91

8k+

🚀 New Space Race 🛰️ Astropolitics 💥 Space Warfare

The Future of Geography 87%

Space is the new geography of power: every conflict below is replicating in orbit.

by Tim Marshall 2023

3.91

8k+ ratings

🚀 New Space Race 🛰️ Astropolitics 💥 Space Warfare

Bankrupting the Third World

by James Morcan • 2015

The global poverty industry: why aid, loans, and conflict minerals ensure poor nations stay poor.

4.40

🛢️ Resource Extraction 💰 Aid Critique ⛏️ Conflict Minerals

Bankrupting the Third World 87%

The global poverty industry: why aid, loans, and conflict minerals ensure poor nations stay poor.

by James Morcan 2015

4.40

96 ratings

🛢️ Resource Extraction 💰 Aid Critique ⛏️ Conflict Minerals

Managed Annihilation

by Dean L.Y. Bavington • 2010

The 1992 cod collapse that idled 30,000 workers was not nature's fault but management's.

3.29

📜 Environmental History 🌍 Political Ecology 🎣 Fisheries Management

Managed Annihilation 87%

The 1992 cod collapse that idled 30,000 workers was not nature's fault but management's.

by Dean L.Y. Bavington 2010

3.29

21 ratings

📜 Environmental History 🌍 Political Ecology 🎣 Fisheries Management

Blowout

by Rachel Maddow • 2019

Fracking, oligarchs, and a 50-kiloton bomb in Colorado: how the oil industry broke global democracy.

4.34

16k+

🛢️ Oil And Gas Industry 🌏 Energy Geopolitics 💎 Resource Curse

Blowout 87%

Fracking, oligarchs, and a 50-kiloton bomb in Colorado: how the oil industry broke global democracy.

by Rachel Maddow 2019

4.34

16k+ ratings

🛢️ Oil And Gas Industry 🌏 Energy Geopolitics 💎 Resource Curse

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

by Alex Epstein • 2014

Climate deaths fell 98% this century. Fossil fuels caused that, and their moral defense is overdue.

4.07

2k+

⚡ Energy Policy 🌡️ Climate Debate 🔧 Techno-Optimism

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels 87%

Climate deaths fell 98% this century. Fossil fuels caused that, and their moral defense is overdue.

by Alex Epstein 2014

4.07

2k+ ratings

⚡ Energy Policy 🌡️ Climate Debate 🔧 Techno-Optimism

The Economist Guide to Commodities

by Caroline Bain • 2013

What moves commodity prices isn't just supply and demand: it's China, speculation, and geopolitics.

3.67

🏭 Commodity Markets 📊 Price Volatility 🚩 Resource Nationalism

The Economist Guide to Commodities Summary

The Economist Guide to Commodities 87%

What moves commodity prices isn't just supply and demand: it's China, speculation, and geopolitics.

by Caroline Bain 2013

3.67

57 ratings

🏭 Commodity Markets 📊 Price Volatility 🚩 Resource Nationalism

Brazil Is the New America

by James Dale Davidson • 2012

The math of debt, energy, and demography says the American era ends and Brazil's begins.

3.17

📉 National Decline 🌍 Emerging Markets 🛢️ Peak Oil

Brazil Is the New America 87%

The math of debt, energy, and demography says the American era ends and Brazil's begins.

by James Dale Davidson 2012

3.17

36 ratings

📉 National Decline 🌍 Emerging Markets 🛢️ Peak Oil

By Peter B. Evans - Bringing the State Back In

by Ted Rall • 2002

The War on Terror was never justice; it was a 50-billion-barrel pipeline through Afghanistan.

3.58

170

🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇦🇫 Afghan War 💰 War Economy

By Peter B. Evans - Bringing the State Back In Summary

By Peter B. Evans - Bringing the State Back In 87%

The War on Terror was never justice; it was a 50-billion-barrel pipeline through Afghanistan.

by Ted Rall 2002

3.58

170 ratings

🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇦🇫 Afghan War 💰 War Economy

Material World

by Ed Conway • 2023

Six buried materials hold up modern life. The clean energy shift means digging more, not less.

4.5

9k+

📜 Material Histories 🚢 Supply Chains 🏗️ Hidden Infrastructure

Material World 86%

Six buried materials hold up modern life. The clean energy shift means digging more, not less.

by Ed Conway 2023

4.5

9k+ ratings

📜 Material Histories 🚢 Supply Chains 🏗️ Hidden Infrastructure

Very Bad People

by Patrick Alley • 2022

How three friends followed war-zone timber to European ports and brought down a dictator.

4.05

799

🛡️ Anti-Corruption 💎 Conflict Resources 📰 Investigative Journalism

Very Bad People 86%

How three friends followed war-zone timber to European ports and brought down a dictator.

by Patrick Alley 2022

4.05

799 ratings

🛡️ Anti-Corruption 💎 Conflict Resources 📰 Investigative Journalism

The New Map

by Daniel Yergin • 2020

Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.

4.17

6k+

🛢️ Energy Geopolitics 🏛️ Great Power Rivalry 🌍 Climate Geopolitics

The New Map 86%

Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.

by Daniel Yergin 2020

4.17

6k+ ratings

🛢️ Energy Geopolitics 🏛️ Great Power Rivalry 🌍 Climate Geopolitics

Political Ecology

by Paul Robbins • 2004

Environmental problems are political problems. A critical field guide to the tools that prove it.

3.92

208

🌍 Political Ecology 🏛️ Environmental Politics 🗺️ Critical Geography

Political Ecology 86%

Environmental problems are political problems. A critical field guide to the tools that prove it.

by Paul Robbins 2004

3.92

208 ratings

🌍 Political Ecology 🏛️ Environmental Politics 🗺️ Critical Geography

Contemporary Conflict Resolution

by Oliver Ramsbotham • 2005

The Cold War ended. Wars moved inside states. Conflict resolution rebuilt itself for what came next.

3.73

180

🕊️ Conflict Resolution 📚 Peace And Conflict Studies 🌍 Intrastate Conflict

Contemporary Conflict Resolution Summary

Contemporary Conflict Resolution 86%

The Cold War ended. Wars moved inside states. Conflict resolution rebuilt itself for what came next.

by Oliver Ramsbotham 2005

3.73

180 ratings

🕊️ Conflict Resolution 📚 Peace And Conflict Studies 🌍 Intrastate Conflict

Surrender or Starve

by Robert D. Kaplan • 1988

A Marxist regime weaponized famine in Ethiopia. The West's life-saving aid also financed the war.

3.67

474

🌍 Horn Of Africa 🏛️ African Politics 🍂 Political Famine

Surrender or Starve 86%

A Marxist regime weaponized famine in Ethiopia. The West's life-saving aid also financed the war.

by Robert D. Kaplan 1988

3.67

474 ratings

🌍 Horn Of Africa 🏛️ African Politics 🍂 Political Famine

Eating Tomorrow

by Timothy A. Wise • 2019

Agribusiness starves farmers and the planet. Peasant-led farming is already fixing it.

3.78

🍽️ Food Politics 🏢 Agribusiness Critique 🌾 Food Sovereignty

Eating Tomorrow 86%

Agribusiness starves farmers and the planet. Peasant-led farming is already fixing it.

by Timothy A. Wise 2019

3.78

78 ratings

🍽️ Food Politics 🏢 Agribusiness Critique 🌾 Food Sovereignty

The Story of Stuff

by Annie Leonard • 2010

A five-stage global machine grinds resources into toxic waste. The owners call it the economy.

4.08

4k+

📉 Consumerism Critique 🔄 Product Life Cycles ⚖️ Environmental Justice

The Story of Stuff 86%

A five-stage global machine grinds resources into toxic waste. The owners call it the economy.

by Annie Leonard 2010

4.08

4k+ ratings

📉 Consumerism Critique 🔄 Product Life Cycles ⚖️ Environmental Justice

Limits to Growth

by Donella H. Meadows • 1972

A computer model of Earth's limits, tested for 30 years: the math says overshoot has already begun.

4.21

2k+

🧠 Systems Thinking 📊 Environmental Economics 🌍 Planetary Boundaries

Limits to Growth 86%

A computer model of Earth's limits, tested for 30 years: the math says overshoot has already begun.

by Donella H. Meadows 1972

4.21

2k+ ratings

🧠 Systems Thinking 📊 Environmental Economics 🌍 Planetary Boundaries

BOOM

by Tony Horwitz • 2014

From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.

3.89

713

🛢️ Energy Politics 🏭 Oil Industry 📰 Narrative Journalism

BOOM 86%

From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.

by Tony Horwitz 2014

3.89

713 ratings

🛢️ Energy Politics 🏭 Oil Industry 📰 Narrative Journalism

The Limits to Growth

by Donella H. Meadows • 1972

Exponential growth meets a finite planet: overshoot, collapse. The math hasn't changed since 1972.

4.17

931

🌿 Environmental Economics ⛏️ Resource Depletion 🔄 Systems Thinking

The Limits to Growth 86%

Exponential growth meets a finite planet: overshoot, collapse. The math hasn't changed since 1972.

by Donella H. Meadows 1972

4.17

931 ratings

🌿 Environmental Economics ⛏️ Resource Depletion 🔄 Systems Thinking

Apocalypse Never

by Michael Shellenberger • 2020

The planet is getting better in the ways that matter. The alarmists got it backward.

4.16

6k+

🌍 Environmental Policy 🌡️ Climate Debate ⚡ Energy Policy

Apocalypse Never 86%

The planet is getting better in the ways that matter. The alarmists got it backward.

by Michael Shellenberger 2020

4.16

6k+ ratings

🌍 Environmental Policy 🌡️ Climate Debate ⚡ Energy Policy

2052

by Jørgen Randers • 2012

A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.

3.95

355

🧠 Systems Thinking 📉 Limits To Growth 🔮 Scenario Planning

2052 86%

A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.

by Jørgen Randers 2012

3.95

355 ratings

🧠 Systems Thinking 📉 Limits To Growth 🔮 Scenario Planning

This Changes Everything

by Naomi Klein • 2014

Capitalism demands endless growth. The climate demands we stop. Only one can win.

4.16

28k+

🏛️ Climate Politics 🌹 Eco-Socialism ⚖️ Climate Justice

This Changes Everything 86%

Capitalism demands endless growth. The climate demands we stop. Only one can win.

by Naomi Klein 2014

4.16

28k+ ratings

🏛️ Climate Politics 🌹 Eco-Socialism ⚖️ Climate Justice

The Great Displacement

by Jake Bittle • 2023

Climate disasters are displacing millions; housing markets and insurance can't keep up.

4.28

4k+

🌍 Climate Migration ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🇺🇸 American Migration

The Great Displacement 86%

Climate disasters are displacing millions; housing markets and insurance can't keep up.

by Jake Bittle 2023

4.28

4k+ ratings

🌍 Climate Migration ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🇺🇸 American Migration

Climate Justice

by Mary Robinson • 2018

Climate change is a human rights crisis. Frontline communities are showing the world how to respond.

4.06

3k+

⚖️ Climate Justice ✊ Human Rights 🌱 Grassroots Activism

Climate Justice 86%

Climate change is a human rights crisis. Frontline communities are showing the world how to respond.

by Mary Robinson 2018

4.06

3k+ ratings

⚖️ Climate Justice ✊ Human Rights 🌱 Grassroots Activism

Wine to Water

by Doc Hendley • 2012

From pouring drinks to drilling wells in Darfur: a bartender's unlikely path into humanitarian work.

3.96

799

🎗️ Humanitarian Memoir 💧 Global Water Crisis ⚠️ Conflict Zone Aid

Wine to Water 86%

From pouring drinks to drilling wells in Darfur: a bartender's unlikely path into humanitarian work.

by Doc Hendley 2012

3.96

799 ratings

🎗️ Humanitarian Memoir 💧 Global Water Crisis ⚠️ Conflict Zone Aid

The Ends of the Earth

by Robert D. Kaplan • 1996

Rivers and soil shape nations more than constitutions. A journey to the frontiers where states fail.

4.11

2k+

🗺️ Political Travelogue 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🌱 Environmental Determinism

The Ends of the Earth 86%

Rivers and soil shape nations more than constitutions. A journey to the frontiers where states fail.

by Robert D. Kaplan 1996

4.11

2k+ ratings

🗺️ Political Travelogue 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🌱 Environmental Determinism

The Looting Machine

by Tom Burgis • 2015

Your phone links you to a hidden network that turns Africa's oil and minerals into poverty.

4.04

3k+

⛓️ Resource Curse 🌍 African Politics ⛏️ Extractive Industries

The Looting Machine 86%

Your phone links you to a hidden network that turns Africa's oil and minerals into poverty.

by Tom Burgis 2015

4.04

3k+ ratings

⛓️ Resource Curse 🌍 African Politics ⛏️ Extractive Industries

The Least of All Possible Evils

by Eyal Weizman • 2012

When humanitarian law calculates acceptable civilian deaths, it also makes them thinkable.

4.19

224

🩸 Aid And Complicity 🤷 Lesser Evil Logic 📊 Proportionality In War

The Least of All Possible Evils 86%

When humanitarian law calculates acceptable civilian deaths, it also makes them thinkable.

by Eyal Weizman 2012

4.19

224 ratings

🩸 Aid And Complicity 🤷 Lesser Evil Logic 📊 Proportionality In War

Collapse

by Jared Diamond • 2004

Civilizations don't just run out of resources. They fail to decide.

3.94

75k+

🌿 Environmental History 🏚️ Societal Collapse 🌍 Environmental Determinism

Collapse 86%

Civilizations don't just run out of resources. They fail to decide.

by Jared Diamond 2004

3.94

75k+ ratings

🌿 Environmental History 🏚️ Societal Collapse 🌍 Environmental Determinism

A Century of War

by F. William Engdahl • 1992

How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.

4.20

480

🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power 💵 Petrodollar System

A Century of War 86%

How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.

by F. William Engdahl 1992

4.20

480 ratings

🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power 💵 Petrodollar System

The End of Oil

by Paul Roberts • 2004

Peak oil, climate collapse, energy poverty: three crises converging, and no unified plan exists.

3.74

1k+

🔄 Energy Transition 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics ⛽ Fossil Fuel Dependence

The End of Oil 86%

Peak oil, climate collapse, energy poverty: three crises converging, and no unified plan exists.

by Paul Roberts 2004

3.74

1k+ ratings

🔄 Energy Transition 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics ⛽ Fossil Fuel Dependence

The Prize

by Daniel Yergin • 1991

How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.

4.44

13k+

🛢️ Commodity History ⛽ Petroleum Industry 🌍 Energy Geopolitics

The Prize 86%

How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.

by Daniel Yergin 1991

4.44

13k+ ratings

🛢️ Commodity History ⛽ Petroleum Industry 🌍 Energy Geopolitics

Asia's Cauldron

by Robert D. Kaplan • 2014

One sea, half the world's trade, six rival claims: the old Pacific order is over.

3.95

3k+

🔭 Geopolitics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ⚓ Maritime Strategy

Asia's Cauldron 86%

One sea, half the world's trade, six rival claims: the old Pacific order is over.

by Robert D. Kaplan 2014

3.95

3k+ ratings

🔭 Geopolitics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ⚓ Maritime Strategy

The Bottom Billion

by Paul Collier • 2007

Four traps keep a billion people poor, and the usual remedies only tighten them.

3.85

8k+

📈 Development Economics 🪤 Poverty Traps 🛢️ Resource Curse

The Bottom Billion 86%

Four traps keep a billion people poor, and the usual remedies only tighten them.

by Paul Collier 2007

3.85

8k+ ratings

📈 Development Economics 🪤 Poverty Traps 🛢️ Resource Curse

Private Empire

by Steve Coll • 2012

How ExxonMobil became a nation-like force, with its own intelligence, foreign policy, and security.

4.00

4k+

🛢️ Oil Industry 🏢 Corporate History 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Private Empire 86%

How ExxonMobil became a nation-like force, with its own intelligence, foreign policy, and security.

by Steve Coll 2012

4.00

4k+ ratings

🛢️ Oil Industry 🏢 Corporate History 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Falter

by Bill McKibben • 2019

Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.

4.00

2k+

🤖 Tech Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception

Falter 86%

Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.

by Bill McKibben 2019

4.00

2k+ ratings

🤖 Tech Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception

Ciencias de la Tierra

by Eduard J. Tarbuck • 2011

You cannot electrolyze tap water. The source matters more than the electrolyzer.

3.62

222

🚰 Water Management 💧 Green Hydrogen 🔬 Water Quality

Ciencias de la Tierra 86%

You cannot electrolyze tap water. The source matters more than the electrolyzer.

by Eduard J. Tarbuck 2011

3.62

222 ratings

🚰 Water Management 💧 Green Hydrogen 🔬 Water Quality

An Inconvenient Apocalypse

by Wes Jackson • 2022

Civilization's biological drive for energy makes collapse inevitable. No green tech can stop it.

3.56

198

📉 Limits To Growth 🛠️ Techno-Skepticism 💰 Ecological Economics

An Inconvenient Apocalypse 86%

Civilization's biological drive for energy makes collapse inevitable. No green tech can stop it.

by Wes Jackson 2022

3.56

198 ratings

📉 Limits To Growth 🛠️ Techno-Skepticism 💰 Ecological Economics

Divided

by Tim Marshall • 2018

We were promised a borderless world. There are more walls now than during the Cold War.

4.01

7k+

🌍 Geopolitics 🧱 Border Barriers 🚩 Nationalism

Divided 86%

We were promised a borderless world. There are more walls now than during the Cold War.

by Tim Marshall 2018

4.01

7k+ ratings

🌍 Geopolitics 🧱 Border Barriers 🚩 Nationalism

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