Environmental Humanities
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From  NEW! Portents and prophecies |
In a central paradox, the one we’re running out of time to resolve, the consequences of burning fossil fuels are poised to demolish two centuries of benefit. So how do we make the fight … | Arno Kopecky | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
 PowerLimits and Prospects for Human Survival |
Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and … | 416 | View | ||
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From Power in NatureFrom Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception From: Power |
In this chapter, the author takes a look at some of the powers that arose in living things long before humans emerged. | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From Power in the AnthropoceneThe Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power |
This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the … | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From Power in the HoloceneThe Rise of Social Inequality From: Power |
In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state … | Richard Heinberg | 67 | 2021 | $6.70 Add |
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From Power in the PleistoceneOn Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs From: Power |
This chapter describes prehistoric forms of human power, including stone tools, fire, animal skins, and language. | Richard Heinberg | 43 | 2021 | $4.30 Add |
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From  Prescription Limits Driving Some Patients to Street DrugsFrom: About Face |
The readings in the fourth section of the book covers the contemporary discourse surrounding addiction in Canada, and outlines a variety of possible paths forward for combatting addiction. | Amanda Preffer | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
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From Progressive Place and the Double Recovery ProgramFrom: About Face |
The final section of the book discusses a variety of organizations that work to help people suffering from addictions. | Kathryn Eve | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
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From Pseudo WorldFrom: About Face |
On Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | William Stromich | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Raleigh, North CarolinaFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the small town of Raleigh, North Carolina, where activists Robert Childs, Minister Michelle Mathis, Steve Daniels and many others worked around the law and came up … | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 Add |
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From  ReawakeningFrom: Changing Tides |
In this chapter Frid explores how members of the Wuikinuxv village on Oweekeno Lake are reclaiming their agency by reconnecting to their cultural memory and long history from before colonization. … | Alejandro Frid | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Rebel, rebel |
After a year of accompanying V330ancouver’s Extinction Rebellion group, the author asks: is civil disobedience not only a moral choice, but also the most powerful way of shaping world … | Arno Kopecky | 41 | 2021 | $4.10 Add |
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From Resisting Least ResistanceFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter follows Frid’s own personal evolution in dealing with Inside Knowledge—the heaviness of knowing, in intimate detail, the damage caused by human actions on the planet. In … | Alejandro Frid | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From Rewiring the Brain for AddictionFrom: Fighting For Space |
Marc Lewis, the author of The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease, visits Downtown Eastside and lays out an argument for addiction as a learned habit. Lewis argues that the choice … | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
 Ring of FireHigh-Stakes Mining in Lowlands Wilderness |
In this colorful tale, Virginia Heffernan draws on her bush and newsroom experiences to illustrate the complexities of resource development at a time when Indigenous rights are becoming enshrined … | Virginia Haffernan | 220 | 2023 | View |
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From Saved From Drowning in a Video Game AddictionFrom: About Face |
The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this … | Ian Young | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
