S5 E4: Up to Heaven and Down to Hell
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The Rise and Fall of the Oil Industry
The fossil fuel industry spent a lot on PR from its early days, but you see that spending ramp up quite a bit after World War II. Here's sociologist Bob Broul again. You can actually start to see movies being put out by the American Petroleum Institute in the 1920s and 1930s all the way through,. I believe, one of my favorite examples of fossil fuel propaganda is called Destination Earth.
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