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No Good Alternative Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies ~ The second volume of William T Vollmann’s carbon ideologies treatise is titled No Good Alternative Having come to grips with nuclear energy in the first part Vollmann now turns his attention to natural gas oil and coal Vollmann explores our reliance on fossil fuels and the consequences of that for our planet
No Immediate Danger Volume One of Carbon Ideologies ~ Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger the first volume of Carbon Ideologies by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction economic demand for electric power and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort Turning to nuclear power first Vollmann then recounts multiple visits that he made at significant personal risk over the course of seven years to the
No Good Alternative Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies 2 by ~ This volume part two of the work titled Carbon Ideologies contains more of the longform journalism seen in the latter half of Volume 1 and is similar in form and method to Vollmanns work in Poor People and Rising Up and Rising Down
No Good Alternative Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies by ~ Praise for No Good Alternative “Carbon Ideologies is an almanac of global energy use a travelogue to natural landscapes riven by energy production a compassionate work of anthropology that tries to make sense of man’s inability to weigh future cataclysm against shortterm comfort one of the most honest books yet written on climate change” —Nathaniel Rich The Atlantic
No Good Alternative Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies ~ No Good Alternative Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies William T Vollmann An eyeopening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas productionthe second of a two volume work by awardwinning author William T Vollmann on the ideologies of energy production and the causes of climate change
Customer reviews No Good Alternative Volume ~ The second volume of William T Vollmann’s carbon ideologies treatise is titled No Good Alternative Having come to grips with nuclear energy in the first part Vollmann now turns his attention to natural gas oil and coal Vollmann explores our reliance on fossil fuels and the consequences of that for our planet
Carbon Ideologies examines – exhaustively – non ~ These fat volumes are full of scientific exposition data in charts and dozenpage interviews all to make the point that our understanding of the perils of nonrenewable energy may be too little too late The Carbon Ideologies No Immediate Danger Volume 1 By William T Vollmann Viking 624 pp
William T Vollmann Would Like a Word or Two About Climate ~ Maybe not “Carbon Ideologies” Vollmann’s twovolume exploration of the energy sources we use and the mess we are in is prodigiously reported but sprawling and undisciplined At more than 1200 pages it is “several times longer than its contractually stipulated maximum” he tells us
William Vollmann’s Brutal Book About Climate Change The ~ Carbon Ideologies is a single work published in two parts No Immediate Danger and No Good Alternative the bifurcation due to the insistence of Vollmann’s weary publisher and the limitations of modern bookbinding Of all the writers working today Vollmann must be the most free He writes fiction
No Good Alternative by William T Vollmann 9780525558514 ~ Praise for No Good Alternative “Carbon Ideologies is an almanac of global energy use a travelogue to natural landscapes riven by energy production a compassionate work of anthropology that tries to make sense of man’s inability to weigh future cataclysm against shortterm comfort one of the most honest books yet written on climate change” —Nathaniel Rich The Atlantic
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