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The Environmentalism of the Fossil Fuel Industry

KPFA - Against the Grain

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Negative Ecologies, Fossil Fuels, and the Discovery of the Environment

David Bond writes about the intertwined lives of petroleum and environmentalism in North America. He asks: How does crude oil affect or maybe obscure our understanding of the massive harms of crude oil? The commodity overshadows those destroyed landscapes and lives that are part of how crude oil becomes a commodity, he says.

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