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Negative Ecologies - Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment (Hardcover)
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Negative Ecologies - Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment (Hardcover)
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So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable
climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative
Ecologies is a bold reappraisal of the outsized role fossil fuels
have played in making the environment visible, factual, and
politically operable in North America. Following stories of
hydrocarbon harm that lay the groundwork for environmental science
and policy, this book brings into clear focus the dialectic between
the negative ecologies of fossil fuels and the ongoing discovery of
the environment. Exploring iconic sites of the oil economy, ranging
from leaky Caribbean refineries to deepwater oil spills, from the
petrochemical fallout of plastics manufacturing to the extractive
frontiers of Canada, Negative Ecologies documents the upheavals,
injuries, and disasters that have long accompanied fossil fuels and
the manner in which our solutions have often been less about
confronting the cause than managing the effects. This history of
our present promises to re-situate scholarly understandings of
fossil fuels and renovate environmental critique today. David Bond
challenges us to consider what forms of critical engagement may now
be needed to both confront the deleterious properties of fossil
fuels and envision ways of living beyond them.
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