Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment

by David Bond

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520386787
• ISBN13: 9780520386785
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"