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Peter Maass - Crude World
Sep 30 2009 7:00 pm
Sep 30 2009 8:00 pm
Wednesday, September 30, 7 p.m.
Peter Maass
Crude World (Knopf, $27)
Journalist Maass has written a concise and hard hitting book about oil politics. He starts by noting that to the nations that have oil comes “ trouble rather than prosperity.” He surveys some of these troubled lands: Saudi Arabia, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, and Ecuador. He concludes, “there is too much corruption-inducing, economy deforming, conflict-enhancing, fate-altering value locked up in natural resources like oil.” The obvious solution is to make the minerals less valuable and this is where a convergence occurs between the answers to global warming, dwindling oil supplies, and the inability of oil rich nations to establish democratic institutions.
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