An unprecedented look at the countries where oil is extracted,
following its journey poisoning rivers and land, promoting
political bloodshed, spreading corruption and benefitting only big
companies and governments.
Oil makes the world work. It has become so vital that even a small
reduction in output can cause economic chaos. We know that our
reliance on oil is potentially disastrous but what we are less
clear about is the terrible damage it inflicts on the countries
that produce it. The people who should benefit most from the riches
of oil are, quite often, harmed by it. Crude World offers a
passionate look at some of the most awful places in the world - the
violent, repressive and polluted countries where oil is extracted.
Peter Maass follows the journey of oil and shows how the substance
sullies so much of what it touches, poisoning land and rivers,
promoting political bloodshed and creating corruption on a
staggering scale. We tend to gauge the price of oil by its cost at
the petrol station or its role in global warming, but Maass vividly
shows an altogether different price paid by people who live in
countries that are rich in petroleum but not wealth or freedom. He
shows how the profits of oil benefit mainly the companies and
governments that receive royalty cheques and will do more or less
anything to sustain the flow of money. From Nigerian fishermen to
Moscow oligarchs, from American generals in Iraq to
environmentalists in Ecuador, from British executives to Saudi
jihadists, Peter Maass connects the dots and shows how our
relationship to oil is so deadly. Crude World is a magnificent
piece of reportage that reveals the price others pay for the lives
we lead.
This brilliant, dismaying book by a reporter who delivers fact, analysis and eloquent anger with equal aplomb is designed to make you shudder the next time you drive onto a garage forecourt -- Peter Preston Observer Maass presents a convincing case for what's gone wrong, seeing an industry in its twilight Independent Crude World serves as a warning to middle America - or indeed middle Britain, middle China or middle India Financial Times Essential reading -- Robert Redford
Peter Maass is author of Love Thy Neighbour: A Story of War, based on his experiences covering the war in Bosnia. It won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Overseas Press Club Book Prize, and was a finalist for several other literary awards. He is now a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and has written for the New Yorker, the New Republic, the Atlantic Monthly and Slate, among others.
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