Several interviews on the ‘politics of oil and water’ are featured this week on Big Think, a website of ideas from people on everything including the environment. The following people and others were asked about “access to oil and water as a human right, sources of alternative energy and the future of global conflicts over resources”.

• Maude Barlow, founder of the Blue Planet Project.

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• Michael Klare, professor and author of Blood and Oil.

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• Robert Bryce, Fellow at the Energy Resource Institute and author of Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of ‘Energy Independence’.

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