Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth (Paperback)

from nancyadair

I thought I should read Blowout by Rachel Maddow. Should being the giveaway work to my motivation. Instead of a dose of medicine that's good for me but hard to swallow, it was a terrifying funhouse ride that totally engaged my attention! Maddow weaves together a narrative of how we 'got to here' ...

from nyiper

I am so impressed with how Rachel can make a fascinating story out of so much factual information, pulling it together and organizing it so that it can weave a little back and forth in time to provide the incredible picture of where we are and what we are living through in this current energy cri...

from Occasionally

“The oil and gas industry—left to its own devices—will mindlessly follow its own nature. It will make tons of money. It will corrode and corrupt and sabotage democratic governance. It will screw up and—in the end—fatally injure the whole freaking planet . . . The end-times battle is to commit to ...

from LisCarey

This is a fascinating and scary book about what the oil and gas industry has done, to the world in general, to Russia in particular, and in lesser ways to the USA. Discovering the great natural wealth of large deposits of oil and natural gas ought to be a great boon to a country--and it can be. I...

from nancy

As usual Rachel Maddow has written another very eye opener!