Running Dry

Informationen zum Autor Jones, Toby Craig Klappentext Explores the various ways that modern society's unquenchable thirst for carbon-based energy is endangering water. This concise book examines the history of the "energy-water nexus! the ways in which oil and gas extraction poison and dry up water resources! the role of corporate "science in deflecting attention away from the emerging crises! and the ways in which the rush to capture more energy is challenging America's democratic order. Zusammenfassung In Running Dry, historian Toby Jones explores the various ways that modern societyâ™s unquenchable thirst for carbon-based energy is endangering water, particularly in the Western United States where there has been a rapid push to extract newfound energy resources alongside the accelerating loss or pollution of critical water resources. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Choosing Energy 2. Dangerous Water 3. Arabia on the Front Range Notes

Autorentext

Jones, Toby Craig

Klappentext

Explores the various ways that modern society's unquenchable thirst for carbon-based energy is endangering water. This concise book examines the history of the "energy-water nexus”, the ways in which oil and gas extraction poison and dry up water resources, the role of corporate "science” in deflecting attention away from the emerging crises, and the ways in which the rush to capture more energy is challenging America's democratic order.

Zusammenfassung
In Running Dry, historian Toby Jones explores the various ways that modern society's unquenchable thirst for carbon-based energy is endangering water, particularly in the Western United States where there has been a rapid push to extract newfound energy resources alongside the accelerating loss or pollution of critical water resources.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. Choosing Energy
2. Dangerous Water
3. Arabia on the Front Range
   Notes