Speaker 1: For more than a century now, the fossil fuel industry
Speaker 1: has been telling one story more than any other. We
Speaker 1: owe not just our way of life, but our lives
Speaker 1: themselves to this industry.
Speaker 2: Fossil fuel use does not contribute to improvements in life expectancy.
Speaker 1: Does the promise of oil wealth actually pan out?
Speaker 3: Generally does not pan out.
Speaker 1: That's what the record shows today. Oil companies are racing
Speaker 1: to drill while they still can in a global game
Speaker 1: of high stakes musical chairs. No one wants to be
Speaker 1: the company left holding the most untapped reserves when the
Speaker 1: jig is up. And one small South American country is
Speaker 1: at the forefront of this last wave of oil colonialism.
Speaker 4: Offshore Guyana. We reached the huge milestone of declaring ten
Speaker 4: billion oil equivalent barrels.
Speaker 1: In three short years. It's gone for the world's top
Speaker 1: eco tourism destination to one of the world's largest oil states.
Speaker 5: The majority of people, including the IMF, have gone on
Speaker 5: record as saying it was a very unfair deal.
Speaker 6: For the end, it's really extraordinary the leverage industry has
Speaker 6: over the country.
Speaker 7: Oil has really changed the landscape. It's even more difficult
Speaker 7: to criticize the government.
Speaker 3: The amount a number of attacks we have received from
Speaker 3: members of the government. It shows that the government is
Speaker 3: not ready to accommodate persons who are willing to speak out.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Light Sweet Crude, a new season from the
Speaker 1: teams behind damages and drilled that looks at the idea
Speaker 1: that oil makes everything better and asks who's really winning
Speaker 1: in the fastest growing economy on Earth.