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Coal Wars

by Richard Martin

Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2015-04-14
ISBN : 1466879246
Pages : 288 pages
Rating Book: 4.6/5 (466 users)

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Download or read book Coal Wars written by Richard Martin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 18th century, when it emerged as a source of heating and, later, steam power, coal has brought untold benefits to mankind. Even today, coal generates almost 45 percent of the world's power. Our modern technological society would be inconceivable without coal and the energy it provides. Unfortunately, that society will not survive unless we wean ourselves off coal. The largest single source of greenhouse gases, coal is responsible for 43 percent of the world's carbon emissions. Richard Martin, author of SuperFuel, argues that to limit catastrophic climate change, we must find a way to power our world with less polluting energy sources, and we must do it in the next couple of decades—or else it is "game over." It won't be easy: as coal plants shut down across the United States, and much of Europe turns to natural gas, coal use is growing in the booming economies of Asia— particularly China and India. Even in Germany, where nuclear power stations are being phased out in the wake of the Fukushima accident, coal use is growing. Led by the Sierra Club and its ambitious "Beyond Coal" campaign, environmentalists hope to drastically reduce our dependence on coal in the next decade. But doing so will require an unprecedented contraction of an established, lucrative, and politically influential worldwide industry. Big Coal will not go gently. And its decline will dramatically change lives everywhere—from Appalachian coal miners and coal company executives to activists in China's nascent environmental movement. Based on a series of journeys into the heart of coal land, from Wyoming to West Virginia to China's remote Shanxi Province, hundreds of interviews with people involved in, or affected by, the effort to shrink the industry, and deep research into the science, technology, and economics of the coal industry, Coal Wars chronicles the dramatic stories behind coal's big shutdown—and the industry's desperate attempts to remain a global behemoth. A tour de force of literary journalism, Coal Wars will be a milestone in the climate change battle.

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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks

by Donald R. Prothero

Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-02
ISBN : 0231544278
Pages : 354 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (231 users)

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Download or read book The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks written by Donald R. Prothero and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth’s past. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters—each about a particular rock, outcrop, or geologic phenomenon—Donald R. Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that shaped our understanding of geology, from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view the inner workings of our planet. Prothero follows in the footsteps of the scientists who asked—and answered—geology’s biggest questions: How do we know how old the earth is? What happened to the supercontinent Pangea? How did ocean rocks end up at the top of Mount Everest? What can we learn about our planet from meteorites and moon rocks? He answers these questions through expertly chosen case studies, such as Pliny the Younger’s firsthand account of the eruption of Vesuvius; the granite outcrops that led a Scottish scientist to theorize that the landscapes he witnessed were far older than Noah’s Flood; the salt and gypsum deposits under the Mediterranean Sea that indicate that it was once a desert; and how trying to date the age of meteorites revealed the dangers of lead poisoning. Each of these breakthroughs filled in a piece of the greater puzzle that is the earth, with scientific discoveries dovetailing with each other to offer an increasingly coherent image of the geologic past. Summarizing a wealth of information in an entertaining, approachable style, The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks is essential reading for the armchair geologist, the rock hound, and all who are curious about the earth beneath their feet.

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The Costs and Implications of Our Demand for Energy: A Comparative and Comprehensive Analysis of the Available Energy Resources

by Fritz Dufour, MBA, DESS

Publisher : Fritz Dufour, MBA, DESS
Release Date : 2018-06-03
ISBN :
Pages : 223 pages
Rating Book: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book The Costs and Implications of Our Demand for Energy: A Comparative and Comprehensive Analysis of the Available Energy Resources written by Fritz Dufour, MBA, DESS and published by Fritz Dufour, MBA, DESS. This book was released on 2018-06-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth analysis of the dynamics of energy in the 21st century. It looks at the risks presented by non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels by giving a special consideration to their single most implication: climate change and by considering some fundamental yet important aspects of energy such as its forms, conservation, measure, and distribution. In it, Fritz Dufour also dives deep into the economics of energy by analyzing important concepts such as energy efficiency and the behavioral gap, energy security and its quantification, and the costs and policies of energy programs. Each type of energy – from the non-renewable category of energies (coal, petroleum, and natural gaz) – to the renewable category of energies (solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and geothermal energies) – is analyzed in terms of its discovery, extraction, storage, distribution, use, and pros and cons. A strong argument is presented in favor of being proactive by prioritizing energy-efficient technologies in order to fortify the bleak future of energy, as the world’s population is set to double by the end of the century and as each energy source has its strengths and weaknesses. Finally, the book stresses the dilemma that we face: no known single renewable source of energy can yet make up for or effectively replace the fossil fuels that have been making our world turn and upon which every single human being is directly or indirectly dependent.

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Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System

by George A. Gonzalez

Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 2018-03-01
ISBN : 1438469810
Pages : 198 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (438 users)

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Download or read book Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System written by George A. Gonzalez and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy and the modern state -- The political economy of energy -- Urban sprawl in the U.S. and the creation of the Hitler regime -- Urban sprawl, the Great Depression, and the start of World War II -- U.S. economic elites, nuclear power, and solar energy -- Global oil politics -- Plutonium and U.S. foreign policy -- Conclusion: energy and the global order

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Pollution, Politics, and Power

by Thomas O. McGarity

Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19
ISBN : 0674545435
Pages : 553 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (674 users)

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Download or read book Pollution, Politics, and Power written by Thomas O. McGarity and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s electric power companies compete to provide cleaner electricity. That’s a good thing, but progress has come with costs, especially for communities reliant on the coal industry. Thomas McGarity examines the changes of recent decades and offers ideas for building a more sustainable grid while easing the economic downsides of coal’s demise.

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Understanding ExtrACTIVISM

by Anna J. Willow

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2018-07-27
ISBN : 0429883897
Pages : 294 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (429 users)

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Download or read book Understanding ExtrACTIVISM written by Anna J. Willow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding ExtrACTIVISM surveys how contemporary resource extractive industry works and considers the responses it inspires in local citizens and activists. Chapters cover a range of extractive industries operating around the world, including logging, hydroelectric dams, mining, and oil and natural gas extraction. Taking an activist anthropological stance, Anna Willow examines how culture and power inform recent and ongoing disputes between projects’ proponents and opponents, beneficiaries and victims. Through a series of engaging case studies, she argues that diverse contemporary natural resource conflicts are underlain by a culturally constituted ‘extractivist’ mind-set and embedded in global patterns of political inequity. Offering a synthesizing framework for making sense of complex interconnections among environmental, social, and political dimensions of natural resource disputes, Willow reflects on why extractivism exists, why it matters, and what we might be able to do about it. The book is valuable reading for students and researchers in the environmental social sciences as well as for activists and practitioners.

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Energy

by Richard Rhodes

Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-05-29
ISBN : 150110537X
Pages : 480 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (51 users)

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Download or read book Energy written by Richard Rhodes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world population, and renewable energy—from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. “Entertaining and informative…a powerful look at the importance of science” (NPR.org), Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. In his “magisterial history…a tour de force of popular science” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Rhodes shows how breakthroughs in energy production occurred; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw energy from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. “A beautifully written, often inspiring saga of ingenuity and progress…Energy brings facts, context, and clarity to a key, often contentious subject” (Booklist, starred review).

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Issues for Debate in American Public Policy

by The CQ Researcher

Publisher : CQ Press
Release Date : 2017-03-20
ISBN : 1506368816
Pages : 433 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (56 users)

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Download or read book Issues for Debate in American Public Policy written by The CQ Researcher and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of non-partisan reports written by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists focuses on provocative current policy issues. As an annual publication that comes together just months before it goes to press, the volume is all new and as up-to-date as possible. And because it’s CQ Researcher, the policy reports are expertly researched and written, showing all sides of an issue. Chapters follow a consistent organization—exploring three issue questions, then offering background, current context, and a look ahead—and feature a pro/con debate box. All issues include a chronology, bibliography, photos, charts, and figures.

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Energy, Economics, and Ethics

by Kenneth Martens Friesen

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2019-11-12
ISBN : 1786606607
Pages : 217 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (786 users)

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Download or read book Energy, Economics, and Ethics written by Kenneth Martens Friesen and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are in the midst of an enormous global energy transition happening before our eyes. Alternative energy forms including solar, wind, water, and bio-fuels are challenging the established energy sources that have fuelled the industrial era for the past century. As we look to this century’s energy future an examination of the past is important to understand how these choices will be made. What political, economic, and ethical lessons can be learned from how coal, oil, and natural gas became the power of the 20th century? Are those lessons instrumental in determining future decisions about emerging alternative energy choices? The opportunities and the risks involved in making, or not making these choices are enormous. Through case studies and examples of past and present development of energy sources, the story is told of the global energy industry. In its telling Energy, Economics, and Ethics wrestles with many of the difficult questions at the heart of the emerging global energy transition

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Coal

by Ralph Crane

Publisher : Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2021-04-15
ISBN : 1789143675
Pages : 224 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (789 users)

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Download or read book Coal written by Ralph Crane and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial revolution we have all benefitted from the mining of the black seam. Coal has significantly influenced the course of human history and our social and natural environments. This book takes readers on a journey through the extraordinary artistic responses to coal, from its role in the works of writers such as Émile Zola, D. H. Lawrence, and George Orwell; to the way it inspired the work of painters, including J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh; to the place of coal in film, song, and folklore; as well as the surprising allure of coal tourism. Strikingly illustrated, Coal provides engaging and informative insight into the myriad ways coal has affected our lives.

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Critical Perspectives on Fossil Fuels vs. Renewable Energy

by Anne C. Cunningham

Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2016-12-15
ISBN : 0766081362
Pages : 208 pages
Rating Book: 4.6/5 (766 users)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Fossil Fuels vs. Renewable Energy written by Anne C. Cunningham and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renewable energy is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the global economy as climate scientists and environmentalists give voice to the detrimental effects of fossil fuels. But how far have we gotten in developing efficient and sustainable energy, including solar, wind, and geothermal power, and what are the benefits of these renewable energy sources compared to fossil fuels? This text examines the issue from diverse viewpoints, allowing students to analyze key ideas in energy production through primary source evidence.

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The Thread of Energy

by Martin J. Pasqualetti

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
ISBN : 0199394806
Pages : 465 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (199 users)

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Download or read book The Thread of Energy written by Martin J. Pasqualetti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Thread of Energy simplifies the world's complexity by discussing energy as the single most influential driver of human actions and decisions. It exposes fundamental influences of energy on our lives, our security, and our relationships with others in an ever-shrinking and complicated world. It examines the typical influence energy has on all human activities, ways of life, ambitions, and costs while illustrating the central role of energy in explaining how the world works and how it will influence the future we are creating. It reduces the myriad interlocking and inscrutable influences on human security and happiness and prepares us - in lay terms - for the coming energy transition. The Thread of Energy weaves a tapestry of all human activities. Energy is the premier driver of human actions, decisions, barriers, and opportunities. Acknowledging and acting upon this accumulated awareness is the first step in illuminating the path to the solutions we must achieve to survive. When we do so, we will have accepted that Energy is a social issue with a technical component rather than the other way around"--

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Prescriptions for the Climate Crisis

by Simon Richards

Publisher : Apiarist
Release Date : 2021-05-22
ISBN :
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book Prescriptions for the Climate Crisis written by Simon Richards and published by Apiarist. This book was released on 2021-05-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the fortunate among us feel very sick, we visit a doctor. If we are lucky, they will decide that the ailment is curable and issue us with a prescription. For some tablets, perhaps. Or something simpler, like rest. More often than not the problem goes away. Our planet is sick, according to the scientists of the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their prescription to humanity is clear: we must arrest the rising temperature of Earth’s surface, by reducing the concentrations of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. The symptoms won’t clear up unless we act, and even then there will likely be lasting effects. In Prescriptions for the Climate Crisis, Simon Richards looks at the impacts of how we move around, power our lives, shelter, and consume, and prescribes possible solutions to lessen the Climate Crisis. Rather than dwelling on doom and gloom, he suggests pragmatic ideas for individuals and governments in an accesible style.

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The Energy Industry

by Kristina Lyn Heitkamp

Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2018-07-15
ISBN : 1534503021
Pages : 202 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (534 users)

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Download or read book The Energy Industry written by Kristina Lyn Heitkamp and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over how the energy industry should develop in the United States and beyond has reached a critical point. The search for cleaner and more sustainable fuel sources continues, but with the United States' proposed withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and the expansion of the Keystone XL pipeline approved by the Trump administration, the issue of how America's energy policy should develop in the coming years is more complicated than ever. Readers will gain a better understanding of the factual information on the energy industry and learn the key arguments in the debate surrounding it.

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Coal Cultures

by Derrick Price

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-19
ISBN : 1000211630
Pages : 216 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 ( users)

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Download or read book Coal Cultures written by Derrick Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solidarity and self-help. Mining was central to working class life, drawing rural populations into industrial labour, but it often took place in picturesque landscapes, so that its black spoil heaps became a central symbol of the degradation of pastoral life by the demands of an extractive industry. Throughout Europe and the USA photographers have pictured the characteristic landscapes of the industry, and continue to do so as strip mining devastates huge areas of land. Not only landscape photography but also documentary, portraiture, photojournalism and art photography have been used in order to portray mines and miners. This book presents three interlinked strands of investigation. The first is the way in which the production of coal created paradigmatic communities grounded in particular landscapes. The second concerns the role of photography in exploring, delineating and critiquing mining communities. This in turn involves an examination of the aesthetic and social characteristics of a number of genres of photography. Lastly, it considers the growth and decline of these sites, the geographic shift of the industry to other places, and the re-presentation of traditional localities through the lens of the heritage industry and industrial tourism.

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Violence of Work

by Jeremy Milloy

Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2020-11-24
ISBN : 1487523432
Pages : 209 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (487 users)

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Download or read book Violence of Work written by Jeremy Milloy and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Violence of Work demonstrates that violence has always been an important part of work under capitalism. The editors explore workplace violence in a diverse range of North American workplaces from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century.

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China's Air Pollution Problems

by Claudio O. Delang

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-20
ISBN : 131720929X
Pages : 108 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (317 users)

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Download or read book China's Air Pollution Problems written by Claudio O. Delang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s rapid industrialisation has led to "an air pollution catastrophe". Concerted efforts to achieve economic growth have led to veiled skies of toxic air and created health and morbidity problems as well as tremendous environmental degradation. China’s Air Pollution Problems provides an overview of air pollution in China describing how and why China has ended up in such a dire situation, what the government is doing to address the problem and the difficulties it is encountering in attempting to reduce the pollution. The analysis is based on both grey literature (newspaper articles, NGO reports, Chinese government information) and on academic studies. The grey literature gives a voice to those who suffer from the pollution, their advocates, and government officers, and allows the reader to better grasp the conditions on the ground, and the impact of air pollution among people in different areas in China. The academic literature adds a theoretical perspective and brings these different case studies into a broader context. This book will be of great interest to students of environmental pollution and contemporary Chinese studies looking for an introduction to the topic and also for researchers looking for an extensive list of sources and analysis of China's environmental problems.

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