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Cookie akzeptierenWilliam T. Vollmann
No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies
- Penguin Random House LLC
- 2019
- Taschenbuch
- 688 Seiten
- ISBN 9780525558514
"The most honest book about climate change yet." -The Atlantic "The Infinite Jest of climate books." -The Baffler An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production-the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William T. Vollmann on the ideologies of energy production and the causes of climate change The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage. " Over the course of four years Vollmann finds hollowed out towns with coal-polluted streams and acidified drinking water; makes covert visits to mountaintop removal mines; and offers documented accounts of unpaid fines for federal health and safety violations and of miners who died because their bosses cut corners to make more
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