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Energy Reader
. Ed(S): Butler, Tom; Wuerthner, George; Lerch, Daniel
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Description for Energy Reader
paperback. Editor(s): Butler, Tom; Wuerthner, George; Lerch, Daniel. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RNFY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 571.
The Energy Reader takes an unflinching look at the environmental devastation created by our thirst for energy--including supposedly "clean" renewable sources. From oil spills, nuclear accidents, and mountaintop-removal coal mining to oversized wind farms and desert-destroying solar power plants, virtually every region of the globe is now experiencing the consequences of out-of-control energy development. Essentially no place is sacred, no landscape safe from the relentless search for energy resources to continue powering a culture based on perpetual growth. Precious wildlands, fragile ecosystems, even our own communities and children's health are at risk. Featuring essays by more than thirty of ... Read more
The Energy Reader takes an unflinching look at the environmental devastation created by our thirst for energy--including supposedly "clean" renewable sources. From oil spills, nuclear accidents, and mountaintop-removal coal mining to oversized wind farms and desert-destroying solar power plants, virtually every region of the globe is now experiencing the consequences of out-of-control energy development. Essentially no place is sacred, no landscape safe from the relentless search for energy resources to continue powering a culture based on perpetual growth. Precious wildlands, fragile ecosystems, even our own communities and children's health are at risk. Featuring essays by more than thirty of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Watershed Media Press United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Boonville, United States
ISBN
9780970950093
SKU
V9780970950093
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About . Ed(S): Butler, Tom; Wuerthner, George; Lerch, Daniel
Tom Butler is an activist and writer whose books include Plundering Appalachia and Wildlands Philanthropy. George Wuerthner is a photographer and author who has published more than 30 books on America's wild places. As Publications Director of Post Carbon Institute, Daniel Lerch is the lead editor and manager of the Institute's major print publications. Richard Heinberg is ... Read more
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