Blitzkrieg and Shoa, but also liberation, postwar rule of law, and democracy – were enabled by oil and chemical industries of hydrocarbons.
With the end of WW2, global petrochemical modernity entered a new, even more powerful phase. Wartime industries fuelled peacetime consumerism, European reconciliation – and ecological destruction.
Today, petromodern zombie warfare is back to Europe.
More, not less research on geochemopolitics of hydrocarbons with all its contradictions and ambivalences is necessary.
