6/3/2023 0 Comments Rachel maddow book on oil![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the “key ingredient in the global chaos and democratic downturn we’re now living through,” she says. In her view, almost everything comes back, in the end, to the industry. Maddow states her thesis at the outset: The oil and gas industry “is the most consequential, the most lucrative, the most powerful, and the least-well-governed major industry in the history of mankind.”Īt its heart, this book is a tale of two countries, the United States and Russia, and how, as Maddow sees it, they have been warped by a rapacious fossil fuel industry. Her new book, “Blowout,” takes on the fossil fuel industry or, as one person she cites puts it, the “excrement of the devil.” What sets her apart from other serial fulminators is that she does it with facts - and sardonic wit. ![]()
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