Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental Crisis

The world's water is under siege. A combination of corporate greed, the elite pursuit of political power,...
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Author: Toby Craig Jones
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Language: English
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Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental Crisis by Jones, Toby Craig

Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental Crisis

€27,94

Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental Crisis

€27,94
Author: Toby Craig Jones
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The world's water is under siege. A combination of corporate greed, the elite pursuit of political power, and our unrelenting reliance on carbon-based energy is accerlating a broad range of environmental and political crises. Potentially catastrophic climate change, driven primarily by the consumption of oil and gas, threatens the environment in a variety of ways, including producing unprecedented patterns of heavy weather and superstorms in some places and droughts in others. Alongside intensifying environmental dangers posed by our reliance on carbon energy, the conditions of modern life, from happiness to the possibility of democratic politics, are also being undermined. In Running Dry, historian Toby Craig Jones explores how modern society's unquenchable thirst for carbon-based energy is endangering the environment broadly, as well as the historical roots of this threat. This accessible book examines the history of the "energy-water nexus," the ways in which oil and gas extraction poison and dry up water resources, the role of corporate "science" in deflecting attention away from the emerging crises, and the ways in which the rush to capture more energy is also challenging America's democratic order.

Author: Toby Craig Jones
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 08/06/2015
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9780813569963

About the Author
TOBY CRAIG JONES is an associate professor of history and the director of the Global and Comparative History master's degree program at Rutgers University. He is also the author of Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia.

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