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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: In the United States, oil drilling took off in the late 1800s, with John D. Rockefeller truly making it an industry.
Chapter 3: When US oil supplies waned in the late 1960s, the energy sector turned to natural gas, which it sought to extract by some rather questionable means.
Chapter 4: Fracking became profitable in the late 1990s, though there have been health concerns.
Chapter 5: The oil industry is infamous for failing to prevent accidents and for not cleaning up the environmental messes it has made.
Chapter 6: Oklahoma provides an example of the exploitative and money-hungry nature of the oil and gas industry.
Chapter 7: The ExxonMobil corporation has a troubling history of looking the other way when it deals with corrupt regimes.
Chapter 8: The Russian government has been ruthless about controlling its oil resources.
Chapter 9: Russia’s reliance on oil resources for its standing as a world power has had far-reaching consequences.
Chapter 10: These bipartisan efforts in the United States to keep Russian sanctions in place are a sign of hope, but more steps must still be taken.
Description
Blowout (2019) takes a deep dive into the murky waters of the global gas and oil industry and reveals just how toxic it is. Author Rachel Maddow looks at evidence of this in the US, along with the corrupt deals being made in Russia and Equatorial Guinea, and makes a strong case for why big gas and oil needs to be held accountable for its actions – before things get any worse.
Who Should Listen
- Citizens worried about the erosion of democracy
- Close followers of news about US-Russian relations
- People concerned about corporate influence on world affairs