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Tides of Transformation: An Oil Story
by Intelligence Squared
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Science
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Series
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English
The oil industry has historically operated in relative invisibility. Mysterious offshore rigs hundreds of miles out to sea can appear like images of a foreign land; refinery chimneys rising beyond the edges of some of our biggest cities are easy to mistake for just another factory; and bustling offices, the site of monumental decisions affecting generations to come, are just as faceless as the next. Out of sight – and often out of mind.
But such invisibility belies the overwhelming, ever-presen...