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Chargement... A tirania do petróleo (édition 2009)par Antonia Juhasz
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It par Antonia Juhasz
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An extremely disquieting book, and rightfully so, Juhasz’s expose of the Big Oil industry works forward from history as context, beginning with the industry’s origins in the United States through the government anti-trust action that broke up Standard Oil in 1911. The flawed oversight of the break-up that allowed the industry to form a cartel is next examined, ending with the castration of oversight agencies under Reagan and Bush I and the mega-mergers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Juhasz spends the majority of the rest of the book detailing how the Oil Industry manipulates oil and gas prices, controls elections and legislation, destroys the environment, and even uses the United States to wage war for its international interests. With such widespread power, the final chapter on meaningful strategies to correct the power imbalance is necessarily somewhat meager, but what the book lacks in a general plan of action is more than made up in its clear elucidation of the manifest evils that can be attributed to the industry and its governmental, faux-scientific, and legal cronies. Somewhat graphic depictions of environmental disasters and workers’ injuries. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Juhasz bravely and expertly exposes the inner workings of an industry and a government riddled with secrets, lies, and deception." --Daniel Ellsberg, author ofSecrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers In the tradition of the Academy Award-winning documentaryAn Inconvenient Truth, Antonia Juhasz'sThe Tyranny of Oil offers a chilling exposé of the modern American oil industry and its dire abuse of power. A leading international trade and finance policy expert and the author of The Bush Agenda, Juhasz presents eye-opening truths about a potentially catastrophic global energy crisis that only promises to get much worse in the coming years--and provides possible solutions for meaningful change. Terry Tamminen, former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, calls The Tyranny of Oil "a bold blueprint for ending the madness," and the Christian Science Monitor tells us, "a good first step toward true energy independence is to read this insightful book." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Em A Tirania do Petróleo, Antonia Juhasz investiga a verdade sobre a indústria petrolífera dos Estados Unidos e revela sua força global sem paralelos e a grande influência sobre os governantes.
Escrevendo sobre uma indústria que prospera em segredo, Juhasz mostra como o petróleo esconde seus negócios dos políticos e, principalmente, dos consumidores, além de revelar exatamente como o petróleo consegue o que quer – através do dinheiro, da influência e das mentiras. Além disso, este livro oferece um conjunto de iniciativas para refrear essa indústria, sua força de lobby governamental e a destruição do meio ambiente, enquanto reduzimos a dependência pelo petróleo. Suas respostas provocadoras sobre as mais importantes questões energéticas falam diretamente a leitores interessados nos preços do petróleo e do gás, no aquecimento global e nas guerras por petróleo. Juhasz explora os paralelos entre as companhias de hoje e a Standard Oil, a mais poderosa corporação norteamericana do início do século XX.
A Tirania do Petróleo mistura história e um minucioso trabalho de pesquisa e reportagem, contendo entrevistas com pessoas influentes e um foco único no ativismo. Este livro é leitura obrigatória para todo cidadão global preocupado com os rumos do planeta. ( )