Black Tide - A Year After the Gulf Oil Spill
Black Tide is the only book to tell this story through the perspective of people on all sides of the catastrophe, from those who lost their lives, loved ones, and livelihoods to those who made the policies that set the devastating event in motion, those who cut the corners that put corporate profits over people and the environment, and those who have committed their lives to ensuring that such an event is never repeated.
Antonia Juhasz joins David as we are a year after the Gulf Oil Spill. She has a new book out called Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill. It is more than a story of ruined beaches, dead wildlife, chemical dispersants, corporate spin, political machinations, and financial fallout. It is a riveting human drama filled with people whose lives will forever be defined as “before” and “after” the Gulf oil disaster. Black Tide is the only book to tell this story through the perspective of people on all sides of the catastrophe, from those who lost their lives, loved ones, and livelihoods to those who made the policies that set the devastating event in motion, those who cut the corners that put corporate profits over people and the environment, and those who have committed their lives to ensuring that such an event is never repeated. Antonia Juhasz is Director and Founder of the Energy Program at Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights non-profit organization. She is a policy-analyst, author and activist. Juhasz is leading oil industry expert and critic who also specializes in international trade and finance policy. She is the author of The Tyranny of Oil: the World’s Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do To Stop It, The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time, and a contributing author with John Perkins and others to A Game As Old As Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption.