Welcome to the All-Consuming: Conversations on Oil and Water Forum!

We are looking forward to an exciting year of dialogue about the variety of topics that relate to oil and water. All Consuming: Conversations on Oil and Water uses the lens of the humanities to bring fresh perspectives to issues relating to the access and control of oil and water resources. We hope that this forum will be a place of reflection, discussion, and imagination. To learn more about the issues being discussed in this forum, be sure to visit our Keep Learning page for this series, where you can find a bibliography for the series, a list of interesting oil and water facts, and articles related to different oil and water issues.

We are particularly delighted to have students from Pontiac Township High School and Maine East High School joining us as regular posters on the forum and hope you will join them in this conversation.

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