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“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

No Good Alternative Volume Two of Carbon

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    Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
    Publication Date: 02/07/2019
    ISBN13: 9780525558514, 978-0525558514
    ISBN10: 0525558519
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    General and world history Technology, Engineering & Agriculture Fossil fuel technologies

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    “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

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