The Politics of Black Gold

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Chelsea Green



Daily Clout

NEF Report on the Price of Oil as a Limit to Economic "Recovery"

The economics of oil dependence: a glass ceiling to recovery
Why the oil industry today is like banking was in 2006

(the report - pdf file)

Stuff from TED

Stephen Coleman, The Moral Dangers of Non-Lethal Weapons

How do we make safe surgery part of the global health agenda?

Garth Lenz: The true cost of oil

AFP: Indigenous Ecuadoran woman humbles US oil giant

Yahoo

RUMIPAMBA, Ecuador (AFP) – She has no legal training, and doesn't speak the Spanish that dominates government in Quito but indigenous villager Maria Aguinda helped bring a landmark judgment against US oil giant Chevron for polluting the rain forest she calls home. 

The diminutive grandmother whose modest home sits near marshes clogged for decades in sticky oil has been at the heart of the David-and-Goliath case, and spoke out after Chevron was slapped last week with a $9.5-billion fine, among the heaviest ever handed down for environmental damage.

How responsible are Americans in general for this? "We just use the gasoline, we don't tell them how to get the oil..." Still, shouldn't we feel badly about the environmental costs to maintain our way of life?