I never knew the true extent to the oil businesses and how it affects democracies around the globe. Explained in Rachel's usual detailed way and easy to understand. I feel like I've not only learned more that I ever could have about Oil (which was surprisingly very interesting).but that I've been on a journey around the world whilst doing so. Wow.Rachel Maddow doesn't fail to deliver As Maddow writes, 'Democracy either wins this one or disappears'. It's in her nature'.īlowout is a call to contain the lion: to stop subsidising the wealthiest businesses on earth, to fight for transparency and to check the influence of the world's most destructive industry and its enablers.
But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, 'like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. The oil and gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. Chevron, BP and a host of other industry players get their star turn, most notably ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson. With her trademark black humour, Maddow takes us through the purposeful detonation of a 50-kiloton nuclear bomb underground near Colorado, man-made earthquakes, murdered cows and the international financial crisis, to the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas and a surprising conclusion about why the Russian government hacked the 2016 US election.
Rachel Maddow has it in spades.Award-winning American news presenter Rachel Maddow investigates remarkable stories from around the globe, all leading back to the same crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry.įrom Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington to Kyiv, Siberia, and Moscow to Equatorial Guinea and Alaska, from a mansion in Malibu with the world’s largest collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia to luxury hotels in central London, from deep within the earth’s crust to the icy surface of the Arctic seas, Blowout uncovers a web of international corruption. 'It takes enormous talent to balance brutal honesty with scorching wit. This is our final wake-up call- to stop subsidizing oil and gas, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of the world's most destructive industry before it destroys our democracy A blackly comic journey from Washington to Siberia, to deep within the earth's crust and the icy Arctic seas, it reveals is not just the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas but why the Russian government hacked the 2016 U.S. A ground-breaking investigation into the oil and gas industry, international corruption and world politicsīlowout is the oil and gas industry as we've never seen it before, as told by America's most incisive political journalist, Rachel Maddow.
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