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Carbon ideologies : no good alternative. Volume II

Vollmann, William T., author

2019

Overview

\"The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where \"America's best friend\" is not merely a fuel, but a \"heritage.\" Over the course of four years Vollmann finds hollowed out towns with coal-polluted streams and acidified drinking water; makes covert visits to mountaintop removal mines; and offers documented accounts of unpaid fines for federal health and safety violations and of miners who died because their bosses cut corners to make more money. To write about natural gas, Vollmann journeys to Greeley, Colorado, where he interviews anti-fracking activists, a city planner, and a homeowner with serious health issues from fracking. Turning to oil production, he speaks with, among others, the former CEO of Conoco and a vice president of the Bank of Oklahoma in charge of energy loans, and conducts furtive roadside interviews of guest workers performing oil-related contract labor in the United Arab Emirates. As with its predecessor, No Immediate Danger, this volume seeks to understand and listen, not to lay blame-except in a few corporate and political cases where outrage is clearly due. Vollmann is a carbon burner just like the rest of us; he describes and quantifies his own power use, then looks around him, trying to explain to the future why it was that we went against scientific consensus, continually increasing the demand for electric power and insisting that we had no good alternative.\" Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Subject: Carbon Environmental aspects. / Energy development Environmental aspects. / Atmospheric carbon dioxide Environmental aspects. / Coal mines and mining Environmental aspects. / Global warming. / Climatic changes Effect of human beings on. / Energy policy Social aspects. / Power resources Social aspects. / Climatic changes Social aspects.
• ISBN: 9780525558514, 0525558519

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
QC981.8.G56 V65 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE