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Ending the Fossil Fuel Era.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (387 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262327077
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ending the Fossil Fuel EraDDC classification:
  • 553.2
LOC classification:
  • TP318
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 The Fossil Fuel Problem -- 1 The Problem -- 2 The Biophysical -- 3 The Cultural -- 4 The Ethical -- Part 2 Keeping Them in the Ground -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 5 Leaving Oil under the Amazon -- 6 Appalachia Coal -- 7 El Salvador Gold -- 8 Slowing Uranium in Australia -- 9 The Future Would Have to Give Way to the Past -- 10 Heating Up and Cooling Down the Petrostate -- Part 3 The Politics of Delegitimization -- 11 The Good Life (Sumak Kawsay) and the Good Mind (Ganigonhi:oh) -- 12 Exit Strategies -- 13 On the Way Down -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 The Fossil Fuel Problem -- 1 The Problem -- 2 The Biophysical -- 3 The Cultural -- 4 The Ethical -- Part 2 Keeping Them in the Ground -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 5 Leaving Oil under the Amazon -- 6 Appalachia Coal -- 7 El Salvador Gold -- 8 Slowing Uranium in Australia -- 9 The Future Would Have to Give Way to the Past -- 10 Heating Up and Cooling Down the Petrostate -- Part 3 The Politics of Delegitimization -- 11 The Good Life (Sumak Kawsay) and the Good Mind (Ganigonhi:oh) -- 12 Exit Strategies -- 13 On the Way Down -- Contributors -- Index.

A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway.

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