214 - Oil Beach (with Christina Dunbar-Hester)
Cultures of Energy
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The Importance of Petrochemical Infrastructure
There's something weirdly sacred about petroleum or petrochemical infrastructure that I felt where you get to point in conversations with people. And again, these are people who may not exactly share our political vision or worldview in some ways. But it's almost like they can't imagine the possibility of its disappearance. There is this sort of real sense that like oil is somehow alive and those infrastructures need to be fed. If we feed them, they'll feed us. They'll give us jobs and they'll giving us commodities and they'll give us productive power. Right?
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