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Beschreibung
Oil makes the world work but it destroys many of those who produce it.

Crude World offers a passionate look at the countries where oil is extracted and follows the journey of oil showing how it poisons the land and rivers promotes political bloodshed creates corruption on a staggering scale and rarely offers the people either wealth or freedom. Instead oil benefits only the companies and governments that will do 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 illustrates exactly how our passion for oil is so deadly.
Oil makes the world work but it destroys many of those who produce it.

Crude World offers a passionate look at the countries where oil is extracted and follows the journey of oil showing how it poisons the land and rivers promotes political bloodshed creates corruption on a staggering scale and rarely offers the people either wealth or freedom. Instead oil benefits only the companies and governments that will do 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 illustrates exactly how our passion for oil is so deadly.
Über den Autor
Peter Maass
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780141043173
ISBN-10: 0141043172
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Maass, Peter
Hersteller: Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Maass
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2010
Gewicht: 0,348 kg
Artikel-ID: 135406554