[van-announce] FW: mcQuaig event Wed 27th

[Jane Bouey]

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From: Jane Bouey [mailto:janebouey at shaw.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 12:46 PM
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Subject: mcQuaig event Wed 27th


“It’s The Crude, Dude


War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet”


Hear Linda McQuaig

(author of Shooting the Hippo, The Cult of Impotence, All You Can Eat, etc.)
7:30 pm, Wed., October 27
St. Andrews-Wesley Church (at Nelson and Burrard)
Admission by Donation
Co-sponsors: People’s Co-op Books, Random House, StopWar.ca,
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC)           Info: 604-253-6442


About the book:

Linda McQuaig’s scathing and razor-sharp assaults on fiscal policy (Shooting
the Hippo), Free Trade (The Quick and the Dead), and the Canadian tax system
(Behind Closed Doors), have won her a legion of dedicated readers. In It’s
the Crude, Dude she turns her attention to a truly planetary issue: the
cataclysmic effects our addiction to oil is having on our environment and
our ability to co-exist in the world.

Nothing could be more urgently relevant.

Since its emergence as the first truly global industry in the early
twentieth century, Big Oil has wielded more power than most governments over
world politics and the global economy. And now, more than ever, it has a
champion in U.S. President George W. Bush, whose Republican party received
millions of dollars in donations from the oil industry and whose
administration is stacked with former oil executives, including its
all-powerful vice-president.

And yet the idea that the U.S. invaded Iraq to secure this strategically
important and highly valuable resource is strangely taboo in the mainstream
media. It is practically shouted down whenever mentioned. Instead, we are
asked to believe that the U.S. invaded Iraq for a variety of reasons, none
of which has anything whatsoever to do with a desire to gain control over
the most lucrative untapped oilfield on earth — even as dwindling worldwide
reserves threaten to turn competition for crude into the major international
battle of the future.

In the end, that conflict may be dwarfed by another even more momentous
disaster-in-waiting. Over the past two decades, it has become clear that the
planet is getting warmer, and that emissions from fossil fuels are largely
to blame. The scientific consensus on this — developed in the most
comprehensive international peer-review process ever undertaken — is
overwhelming. As surely as smoking causes cancer, gas-guzzling SUVs are
hurrying us towards global climate change. In the face of this potentially
devastating threat, the world has moved with unprecedented speed to try to
head off disaster. Only a small group is resisting. But in its ranks are the
most powerful corporations on earth, well connected to the most powerful
government on earth. The outcome of this titanic struggle — the world versus
the oil lobby — will likely determine nothing less than the future viability
of the planet.

McQuaig’s research, analysis, and eye for detail combine to produce a
riveting tale about the battle over oil that shapes our times and will
determine our future. Readers of all political stripes will find this book
provocative and impossible to put down.

REVIEW QUOTES

"With a keen eye and grim wit, McQuaiq's perceptive inquiry into the world's
energy system strips away layer after layer of deceit, cynicism, racism,
sordid manipulation, violence and aggression, in the dedicated effort to
extract every possible ounce of profit and power in a race to the edge of
disaster, perhaps beyond. It is an urgent wake-up call that should — that
must — be read and acted upon, without delay."
—Noam Chomsky




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