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

• Autore: Avery Samuel
• Pubblicazione: Washington, : Ruka Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.79; 665.5/44/028
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Pipeline and the Paradigm
• ISBN: 0-9855748-3-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453197803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II