It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the PlanetDoubleday Canada, 2004 - Всего страниц: 346 UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL Michael Moore rakes America’s corporate villains over the coals. Noam Chomsky flays the United States for the hypocrisy of its global adventurism. Now comes Linda McQuaig, whose incendiary new book tells us how the world’s most powerful industry and history’s most lethal army are having their way with the planet. McQuaig’s scathing and razor-sharp assaults on fiscal policy (Shooting the Hippo), Free Trade (The Quick and the Dead), and the Canadian tax system (Behind Closed Doors), have won her a legion of dedicated readers. In It’s the Crude, Dude she turns her attention to a truly planetary issue: the cataclysmic effects our addiction to oil is having on our environment and our ability to co-exist in the world. Nothing could be more urgently relevant. Since its emergence as the first truly global industry in the early twentieth century, Big Oil has wielded more power than most governments over world politics and the global economy. And now, more than ever, it has a champion in U.S. President George W. Bush, whose Republican party received millions of dollars in donations from the oil industry and whose administration is stacked with former oil executives, including its all-powerful vice-president. And yet the idea that the U.S. invaded Iraq to secure this strategically important and highly valuable resource is strangely taboo in the mainstream media. It is practically shouted down whenever mentioned. Instead, we are asked to believe that the U.S. invaded Iraq for a variety of reasons, none of which has anything whatsoever to do with a desire to gain control over the most lucrative untapped oilfield on earth — even as dwindling worldwide reserves threaten to turn competition for crude into the major international battle of the future. In the end, that conflict may be dwarfed by another even more momentous disaster-in-waiting. Over the past two decades, it has become clear that the planet is getting warmer, and that emissions from fossil fuels are largely to blame. The scientific consensus on this — developed in the most comprehensive international peer-review process ever undertaken — is overwhelming. As surely as smoking causes cancer, gas-guzzling SUVs are hurrying us towards global climate change. In the face of this potentially devastating threat, the world has moved with unprecedented speed to try to head off disaster. Only a small group is resisting. But in its ranks are the most powerful corporations on earth, well connected to the most powerful government on earth. The outcome of this titanic struggle — the world versus the oil lobby — will likely determine nothing less than the future viability of the planet. McQuaig’s research, analysis, and eye for detail combine to produce a riveting tale about the battle over oil that shapes our times and will determine our future. Readers of all political stripes will find this book provocative and impossible to put down. |
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... global warming " sounds benign and even comfort- ing , like the warm embrace of the sun on an early spring day , how does " global freezing " sound ? Another comforting thought has been the notion that human ingenuity will bail us out ...
... global warming " sounds benign and even comfort- ing , like the warm embrace of the sun on an early spring day , how does " global freezing " sound ? Another comforting thought has been the notion that human ingenuity will bail us out ...
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... global warming . Uncertainty , he notes , can work in either direction : " We may be over- or underes- timating the problem . Uncertainty is not a reason for inaction . ” The same is true , he argues , about the economic impact . While ...
... global warming . Uncertainty , he notes , can work in either direction : " We may be over- or underes- timating the problem . Uncertainty is not a reason for inaction . ” The same is true , he argues , about the economic impact . While ...
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... global warming . An industry - funded U.S. advertising blitz in the fall of 1997 alone cost $ 13 million . The campaign proved effective . U.S. congressmen and sena- tors , many of whom receive political donations from the fossil fuel ...
... global warming . An industry - funded U.S. advertising blitz in the fall of 1997 alone cost $ 13 million . The campaign proved effective . U.S. congressmen and sena- tors , many of whom receive political donations from the fossil fuel ...
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Preface | 1 |
Along Comes Iraq | 38 |
The Man to See | 69 |
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