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Bezig met laden... Crude: A Memoir (2019)door Pablo Fajardo, Damien Roudeau (Illustrator), Sophie Tardy-Joubert (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss. Crude is a real-world graphic narration of Ecuadorian lawyer Pablo Fajardo's long running battle against oil giant Chevron's polluting of the Amazon river through the 60's and beyond. What makes it so heart-wrenching is its simplistic artwork which depicts the trials and travails of the poverty stricken South American indigenous tribes taking on one of the world's largest giants. A must read immersion in the world of corporate greed and its inimical affects. An Ecuadorean man recounts -- with the help of a French journalist and artist -- his early life working for Texaco, helping to pollute the Amazon rainforest with oil extraction wastes, and how he later became a lawyer and sued Texaco/Chevron on behalf of the indigenous people who were harmed by the toxic pollution left in the water and soil. That kind of muddled message continues throughout the book as a major victory in a court in Ecuador is basically left unenforceable and allegations of various sorts have been leveled against judges and the plaintiff attorneys. It's a legal mess of epic proportions that creates such a show as to distract from the victims of corporate malfeasance and Texaco/Chevron's indifference to human suffering. They get a little lost in Fajardo's memoir as he flies around the country and the world for court and media appearances, à la Erin Brockovich, but he does manage to refocus and tell at least a portion of their story amidst his own. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Oil waste was everywhere--on the roads, in the rivers where they fished, and in the water that they used for bathing, cooking, and washing. Children became sick and died, cases of stomach cancer skyrocketed, and women miscarried or gave birth to children with congenital disorders. The American oil company Texaco--now part of Chevron--extracted its first barrel of crude oil from Amazonian Ecuador in 1972. It left behind millions of gallons of spilled oil and more than eighteen million gallons of toxic waste. In Crude, Ecuadorian lawyer and activist Pablo Fajardo gives a firsthand account of Texaco's involvement in the Amazon as well as the ensuing legal battles between the oil company, the Ecuadorian government, and the region's inhabitants. As a teenager, Fajardo worked in the Amazonian oil fields, where he witnessed the consequences of Texaco/Chevron's indifference to the environment and to the inhabitants of the Amazon. Fajardo mobilized with his peers to seek reparations and in time became the lead counsel for UDAPT (Union of People Affected by Texaco), a group of more than thirty thousand small farmers and indigenous people from the northern Ecuadorian Amazon who continue to fight for reparations and remediation to this day.Eye-opening and galvanizing, Crude brings to light one of the least well-known but most important cases of environmental and racial injustice of our time. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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