I borrowed a copy of Rachel Maddow's 2019 book, Blowout, over the winter holidays and got through it in a fortnight. Here are a few of my thoughts on this exposé of a few major actors in the oil and gas industry:
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On a school trip when I am ten years old, I find myself on the littoral—where
earth and water meet—of the river in Tadoussac, listening to a teacher asking
the gathered
