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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Deeper Look at the Energy Picture | |
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| Introduction: Energy Literacy | |
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| The Predicament | |
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| Introduction: Energy, Nature, and the Eco-Social Crisis | |
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| Five Carbon Pools | |
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| Faustian Economics: Hell Hath No Limits | |
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| Life-Affirming Beauty | |
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| Our Global Ponzi Economy | |
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| Coal: The Greatest Threat to Civilization | |
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| The View from Oil's Peak | |
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| Energy Return on Investment | |
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| Alternative Energy Challenges | |
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| When Risk Assessment Is Risky: Predicting the Effects of Technology | |
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| Malevolent and Malignant Threats | |
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| Progress vs. Apocalypse: The Stories We Tell Ourselves | |
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| The Landscape of Energy | |
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| Introduction: A Tour of the Energy Terrain | |
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| The Landscape of Energy | |
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| False Solutions | |
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| Introduction: False Solutions to the Energy Challenge | |
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| Drill Baby Drill: Why It Won't Work for Long-Term Energy Sustainability | |
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| Nuclear Power and the Earth | |
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| The False Promise of "Clean" Coal | |
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| The Whole Fracking Enchilada | |
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| River Killers: The False Solution of Megadams | |
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| Bioenergy: A Disaster for Biodiversity, Health, and Human Rights | |
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| Oil Shale Development: Looming Threat to Western Wildlands | |
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| Gas Hydrates: A Dangerously Large Source of Unconventional Hydrocarbons | |
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| Regulatory Illusion | |
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| Retooling the Planet: The False Promise of Geoengineering | |
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| Under Attack | |
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| Introduction: Onslaught of the Energy Machine | |
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| Will Drilling Spell the End of a Quintessential American Landscape? | |
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| Backing the Front: Fighting Oil and Gas Development in Montana's Rocky Mountain Front | |
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| Tar Sands, Pipelines, and the Threat to First Nations | |
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| Sweet and Sour: The Curse of Oil in the Niger Delta | |
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| Outsourcing Pollution and Energy-Intensive Production | |
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| Depowering Destruction | |
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| Introduction: Toward an Energy Economy as if Nature Mattered | |
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| The Case for Conservation | |
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| Reinventing Fire | |
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| Cap the Grid | |
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| Protected Areas: Foundation of a Better Future Relationship with Energy | |
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| Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming | |
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| Distributed Renewable Generation: Why It Should Be the Centerpiece of U.S. Energy Policy | |
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| No Ecological Sustainability without Limits to Growth | |
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| What We're for | |
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| What We're For | |
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| Afterword: Places Where the Wind Carries the Ashes of Ancestors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Credits | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Index | |
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| Editors | |