Environmental Policy
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From ![]() Paying for Mobilization, Then and NowFrom: A Good War |
In Chapter 8, Klein tackles the question of who will pay for it. In the chapter he explores how the financial backing was generated during the mobilized for the the Second World War and how we … | Seth Klein | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
![]() Peak EverythingWaking Up to the Century of Declines |
A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of … | Richard Heinberg | 240 | 2010 | View |
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From ![]() Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sandsFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines Peter Lougheed’s government in Alberta and the rise of the oil sands paying particular attention to Lougheed’s stance against … | Kevin Taft | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() PostscriptFrom: Overrun |
Postscript | Andrew Reeves | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 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 ![]() PrefaceFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Outlines the author’s fascination with the tar sands, the three trips that he has taken to them, why the third trip was exponential different due to the changes in Canada, outlines the … | Tony Clarke | 6 | 2008 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Peak Everything |
In titling this book Peak Everything, I was suggesting that humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and that the road ahead will be mostly … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFraming the Shot From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. filmmaker and photographer Alex Harris shares how she came to document the controversial Site C Dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley. Wroking with a handful of … | Alex Harris | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: A Good War |
Seth Klein | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Preface and Foreword |
Margaret Stout; Maria Spiliotopoulou; Mark Roseland | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add | |
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From ![]() Preface & IntroductionAn unwitting experiment From: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft provides an unique and personal view on the hold oil companies have on our democratic institutions. He goes on to provide a brief history of … | Kevin Taft | 14 | 2017 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Privatization and Its DiscontentsFrom: Back to the Well |
In this Chapter, de Villiers discusses the thorny issue of water privatization and commodification. He explores the difference between privatization of ownership and use and the ways in which … | Marq de Villiers | 45 | 2018 | $4.50 Add |












