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The oil curse: Go deeper
Author(s) -
Wenar Leif
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ippr progressive review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.151
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2573-2331
pISSN - 2573-2323
DOI - 10.1111/newe.12038
Subject(s) - underpinning , curse , economics , economic geography , business , development economics , political economy , political science , market economy , sociology , engineering , anthropology , civil engineering
The West has intervened violently in oil‐rich states for decades. Western oil companies have been shamelessly exploitative. Because of climate change, we should be getting off fossil fuels as fast as we can. Those things we know. But there is a deeper story to oil in world affairs, that hasn't yet been told. Every day we are forced to send our money to some of the most ruthless men in the world. And by empowering those men, we endanger ourselves.