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Can I read Crude World : the Violent Twilight of Oil on EtoBox?
Crude World : the Violent Twilight of Oil by Maass, Peter is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Crude World : the Violent Twilight of Oil about?
Oil is the substance that allows our world to work. Over the course of a century it has taken on such a variety of functions that even a small decrease in oil output would cause economic chaos and nightmarish shortages. We know, of course, that this reliance is a disaster but what we are perhaps less clear about is the terrible damage done by oil to those countries that produce it: the people who on the face of it should most benefit from money gushing from their land.Crude World is a passionate, gripping, angry tour of some of the most awful places in the world – the violent, polluted, dictatorial regions from which the oil is extracted. Peter Maass follows the journey of oil and shows how it is a substance that sullies everything it touches, poisoning land and rivers, promoting political violence and creating corruption on a staggering scale. Oil is a strangely invisible substance – from oil well to tanker to refinery to petrol station to car almost nobody sees it. It requires very few people to get it out of the ground, which means that it provides very little local employment. What it does generate most concretely is immense profits for the oil companies and for the governments
Who reads Crude World : the Violent Twilight of Oil?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Maass, Peter
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400041695
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Economics, Fiction, Business
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (338 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13