Crude
The Story of Oil
$48.21
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
Crude is the unexpurgated story of oil, from the circumstances of its birth millions of years ago to the spectacle of its rise as the indispensable ingredient of modern life. In addition to fueling our SUVs and illuminating our cities, crude oil and its byproducts fertilize our produce, pave our roads, and make plastic possible. “Newborn babies,” observes author Sonia Shah, “slide from their mothers into petro-plastic-gloved hands, are swaddled in petro-polyester blankets, and are hurried off…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583226254 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583226257 |
| Author: | Sonia Shah |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 407g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 144mm |
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Critics Review
“This is not a Michael Moore–style anti-corporate rant—Shah writes beautifully, with dispassionate, elegant clarity—and it is all the more powerful for it.” –The Guardian
“Sonia Shah deftly [shows] how the oil companies’ relentless pursuit of new fields to exploit has led them to drill for oil in some of the most impoverished and unstable areas of the world … particularly eloquent on the despoliation of the Delta region of southern Nigeria.” –Michael Klare, The Nation
“Though Shah could have easily written a laundry list on the disruptions Big Oil and its government cohorts continue to wreak, this volume is more than that—it is an insightful missive to her readers to understand their consumptive reality.” –Clamor Magazine
About The Author
Sonia Shah
SONIA SHAH edited both the critically acclaimed Dragon Ladies- Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire and Between Fear and Hope- A Decade of Peace Activism. A former editor at South End Press and Nuclear Times Magazine, Shah is an independent journalist whose writing appears in The Nation, The Progressive, Salon, and elsewhere.
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