Fossil-fueled Fascism

Drilled

Pushkin Industries

Earth Sciences, True Crime, Science

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. invasions of Venezuela and Iran are more of the same imperialism in service of oil majors. As the climate crisis makes its presence more urgently felt, fossil fascism dictates a doubling-down on extraction and colonialism, and the vilification of those who oppose or stand in the way of that plan.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.1	The world of energy is changing fast.
0:06.7	Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have transformed the outlook for energy demand
0:09.8	and promised to revolutionize energy supply as well.
0:13.4	How can global energy systems adapt to meet these challenges?
0:16.7	I'm at Crooks, and every two weeks I get together with leading experts
0:19.5	to discuss the biggest stories in clean tech, investment and policy.
0:23.2	The good, the bad and the ugly of energy today.
0:25.6	We break it all down on the energy gang.
0:27.9	The Energy Gang, a podcast from Wood Mackenzie, available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.8	Pushkin Ayn
0:40.9	A lot of
0:42.1	A lot of
0:51.1	Ladies and gentlemen, it's our pleasure to welcome you to Georgetown, Guyana.
0:53.1	A few years ago, our old producer, Sarah Ventry and I took a reporting trip to Guyana.
0:58.9	We did the whole season on the country, just as it was becoming a brand-new oil superpower.
1:05.6	Right now, even, there are parts of the East Coast, and even here, during spring tides, you should see the waves
1:12.9	coming over the top of the wall.
1:15.3	So any kind of rise in sea level, we're in trouble.
1:19.4	That was Salvador, one of our guides in Guyana, giving us a tour of the sea wall surrounding
1:24.2	Georgetown, the country's capital.
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