The Pipeline and the Paradigm, Samuel Avery
The Pipeline and the Paradigm, Samuel Avery
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The Pipeline and the Paradigm
Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb

Author: Samuel Avery

Narrator: Andrew Mulcare

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Wetware Media

Published: 06/27/2013


Synopsis

This thoroughly researched and wholly engaging book investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline - a project so controversial it has inspired the largest expression of civil disobedience since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

With enough carbon trapped in the Canadian tar sands to plunge the Earth into irreversible climate change, it is the Keystone XL pipeline that will set that carbon free. The debate rages on over whether this 2,100-mile long steel pipeline is a vital piece America's energy future or the conduit for global climate disaster. From the enormous tar sands mines in Alberta to a tree-top blockade in Texas, this book introduces the people and explores the competing interests that power the environmental issue of the current generation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Margie on February 19, 2013

I received a free ARC of this book via NetGalley. I enjoyed Sam Avery's book about the Keystone XL pipeline. He's a solar installer and environmentalist, but is also pragmatic about our dependence upon fossil fuels. Avery travels the length of the proposed pipeline, interviewing folks along the way.......more

Goodreads review by Daoist56 on August 04, 2013

This book is like sitting down to dinner with a really interesting, knowledgeable guy and talking with him for a couple of hours about the environment, the Keystone pipeline, life, peaceful resistance, the planet, and a lot of other really interesting people he has met. It's a warm (pun intended) an......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on October 08, 2020

The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb by Samuel Avery is an examination of the proposed XL pipe line running from Canada to Houston and Port Arthur. Avery was born in New York City and attended college at Oberlin and the University of Kentuck......more