Earth Equity News

Chronicling the Violent Twilight of Oil. By Jeremy Miller, NYTimes, October 21, 2009. "In his new book, Crude World, Peter Maass... chronicles what he calls 'the violent twilight of oil.' Over the course of a decade, Mr. Maass traveled to more than a dozen countries where the existence of oil shapes, and often violently corrupts, the economic and political culture. Indeed, the world of oil painted by Mr. Maass is bleak, volatile and punctuated by environmental degradation ultimately unsustainable... Excerpts from an e-mail exchange follow." Part 2 of e-mail exchange.