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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453197803321

Autore

Avery Samuel

Titolo

Pipeline and the Paradigm [[electronic resource] ] : Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, : Ruka Press, 2013

ISBN

0-9855748-3-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Disciplina

333.79

665.5/44/028

Soggetti

Keystone XL Pipeline Project

Petroleum pipelines -- Government policy -- United States -- Citizen participation

Pipelines - Environmental aspects - Alberta

Fuel trade - Environmental aspects

Petroleum industry and trade - Environmental aspects

Oil sands

Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)

Hydraulic fracturing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword by Bill McKibben; Introduction: Tar Sands and Mountaintops; The Paradigm; The Dance; The Paradigm; Sun Power; A Look at Life; Civil Disobedience; The Climate; The Ninety-Nine Percent; The Global Paradigm; The Practical Realm of Consciousness; Fracking; The Pipeline; The Dakotas; Nebraska; Oklahoma; Texas; Alberta; The Carbon Boycott; Epilogue: An Opening Skirmish; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

This thoroughly researched and wholly engaging book investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline-a project so controversial it has inspired the largest expression of civil disobedience since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. With enough carbon trapped in the Canadian tar sands to plunge the Earth into irreversible climate change, it is the Keystone XL pipeline that will set that carbon free. The debate rages on



over whether this 2,100-mile long steel pipeline is a vital piece...