Carbon ideologies

by Vollmann, William T.

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Title Statements

Full title :Carbon ideologies. / William T. Vollmann.

Summary

"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."--Amazon.com

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Viking
Place of Publication:New York, New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 667 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780525558491, 0525558497
oclc:on1006795632
LC Classification:TD195.E49
Dewey Decimal:333.82

Subjects

Combustibles fossiles -- Aspect de l'en… Combustibles fossiles -- Aspect moral Combustibles fossiles -- Aspect social Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects Fossil fuels -- Health aspects Fossil fuels -- Moral and ethical aspec… Fossil fuels -- Social aspects global warming Global warming -- Popular works Nonfiction Popular works Power resources Power resources -- Popular works Réchauffement de la Terre -- Ouvrages d… Ressources énergétiques -- Ouvrages de …