I learned the term petropolitics- which refers to the ability of countries dependent on the production of oil for economic stability to control their people and affect human rights detrimentally.
The concept is, the higher the price of oil the less freedom there is in the countries that produce oil, and the lower the price of oil the more freedom there is because without the easy money supply of oil for the government and the upper class, the more everyone has to work and therefore the more everyone needs to be educated in order to contribute effectively to the GDP.
This education consequently leads to greater freedom as the people demand the rights they come to believe they deserve. As long as the price of oil remains high and the need for oil constant, the people living in those oil dependent economies will not be able to experience the freedoms due to all humanity.
Of course, the solution to the oil demand is clean energy. If clean energy is achieved then the demand for oil will be cut short and the governments of the oil dependent countries will have to provide their citizens with more freedoms, and the y will not be able to fund terrorist organizations as well as they could with oil putting an adequate supply of money in their pockets.
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