Carbon ideologies

Author

Vollmann, William T

1) No immediate danger

Author

Vollmann, William T

Series

Carbon ideologies volume 1

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

[2018]

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The first volume in a timely series about climate change and energy generation focuses on the consequences of nuclear-power production through the events and aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011.

2) No good alternative

Author

Vollmann, William T

Series

Carbon ideologies volume 2

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

[2018]

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"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...