oil

From Lagos to Calgary the Resource Curse Condemns Nations to Corruption and Autocracy

Don Gillmor Explores the Economic, Political and Environmental Impact of Our Addiction to Oil

 
By Don Gillmor  April 25, 2025
Indigenous History

Land, Oil, and Indigenous Identity: On the Disappearance of Tommy Atkins

By Russell Cobb  October 11, 2024
Climate Change

A Brief History of Trying to Breathe in Cities

By Pitchaya Sudbanthad  June 15, 2022
LGBTQ Memoir

Growing Up Gay on the Oil-Rich Prairie of North Dakota

By Taylor Brorby  June 9, 2022
Natural Resources

The Dangerous, Dirty Job of Oil Extraction: On the History of Offshore Exploration

By Tabitha Lasley  December 8, 2021
Climate Crisis

The Case for Nationalizing American Fuel Industries—Right Now

By Stan Cox  November 10, 2021
Environment

On the Self-Sustaining Ecosystem and Beauty of Scotland’s Man-Made Bings

By Cal Flyn  June 18, 2021
Capitalism

Imbolo Mbue on the Post-Colonial Greed of the
Oil Industry

By Jane Ciabattari  March 16, 2021
New Books Network

It’s Time to Free Ourselves from the Magical Thinking of ‘Oilcraft’

By New Books Network  November 10, 2020
Keen On

What to Make of Our New Climate Politics

By Keen On  October 12, 2020
Underreported

It Turns Out Fracking Doesn’t Even Make That Much Money

By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  September 8, 2020
American History

Discovering America’s Heavenly Kingdom of Oil

By Darren Dochuk  June 17, 2019
Excerpts

Contemplating Human Extinction, Deep in the Badlands

By Edward McPherson  February 22, 2017
Excerpts

Breaking Rockefeller

By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 24, 2016
Essay

There Is No Market-Driven Solution to Our Climate Catastrophe

By Paul Mason  February 22, 2016

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