Maddow covers a wide variety of topics to make her case, such as the industry’s use of fracking, the Sochi Olympics, the Russian annexation of Crimea and interference in the 2016 elections, and the British Petroleum oil spill and corruption in Equatorial Guinea, and she manages to tie it all together seamlessly. She argues that the fossil fuel industry’s thirst for profits can subvert moral standards, proper stewardship of the earth’s resources, and good governance, both in the United States and abroad. But Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, author of The New York Times best seller Drift: The Unmooring of Military Power, and part-time Provincetown resident, has written a page-turner on those very subjects - Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Most Destructive Industry on Earth, published by Crown this month. (Photo courtesy Penguin Random House)Ī book on the oil and gas industry, Russia, and government corruption? Sounds a bit daunting. Blowout author Rachel Maddow deconstructs the mix of politics, capitalism and unrestrained greed that has inevitably led to the climate change crisis and threatens democracy.
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