Thus, the struggle is not only for power, but also for the control of resources.
Some radical groups campaigning against the oil companies are demanding "control of resources and self-determination".
They compete for the same prize, the same land, the same control of resources.
We are doing this while the important organizing work, particularly around issues of foreclosures and community control of resources, continues.
But what about fights between multinational oil giants and the governments of oil-producing states over control of resources?
Giddens's final structural element is domination, concerned with how power is applied, particularly in the control of resources.
It is this imperial edifice that frames our present environmental policy, where corporate power (the control of resources) takes precedence over protecting the ecosphere.
This is a big precedent – and, of course, there are other countries that will continue to have disputes with oil companies over control of resources.
Without an agreed system for sharing oil revenues, there is no Iraq, just a collection of armed gangs fighting for control of resources.
"It's a contest for the control of resources," said Oronto Douglas, deputy director of Environmental Rights Action, an advocacy group based in neighboring Port Harcourt.
We would lose our ability to innovate and be creative, but worse, our world would become sterile.' Business is no longer about efficiency and control of resources.
