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自从钻出石油那天起，就打开了潘多拉的盒子，彻底改变了我们生活的世界。从来就没有哪一种自然资源像石油一样被赋予了如此强悍的政治力量。然并卵，还有一系列的石油名词：石油铁人、石油化工、石油战线、石油金融、石油外交、石油战争…，石油到底是什么？

From the moment we first drilled for oil, we opened a Pandora's box that changed the world forever. It transformed the way we lived our lives, spawned foreign wars and turned a simple natural resource into the most powerful political weapon the world has ever known. But when exactly did geology turn into such a high-stakes game?

In this series, Professor Iain Stewart visits the places that gave birth to the earth's oil riches, discovers the people who fought over its control and supply, and explores how our insatiable thirst for oil is changing the very planet on which we depend.

It's a journey that will help us answer a fundamental question - how did we become so addicted to oil in little more than one human lifetime?

（源自：BBC）