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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Dedication Foreword Introduction PART ONE: A DEEPER LOOK AT THE ENERGY PICTURE

Introduction: Energy Literacy

PART TWO: THE PREDICAMENT

Introduction: Energy, Nature, and the Eco-Social Crisis Five Carbon Pools Faustian Economics: Hell Hath No Limits Life-Affirming Beauty Our Global Ponzi Economy Coal: The Greatest Threat to Civilization The View from Oil’s Peak Energy Return on Investment Alternative Energy Challenges When Risk Assessment Is Risky: Predicting the Effects of Technology Malevolent and Malignant Threats Progress vs. Apocalypse: The Stories We Tell Ourselves

PART THREE: THE LANDSCAPE OF ENERGY

Introduction: A Tour of the Energy Terrain The Landscape of Energy

PART FOUR: FALSE SOLUTIONS

Introduction: False Solutions to the Energy Challenge Drill Baby Drill: Why It Won’t Work for Long-Term Energy Sustainability Nuclear Power and the Earth The False Promise of “Clean” Coal The Whole Fracking Enchilada River Killers: The False Solution of Megadams Bioenergy: A Disaster for Biodiversity, Health, and Human Rights Oil Shale Development: Looming Threat to Western Wildlands Gas Hydrates: A Dangerously Large Source of Unconventional Hydrocarbons Regulatory Illusion Retooling the Planet: The False Promise of Geoengineering

PART FIVE: UNDER ATTACK

Introduction: Onslaught of the Energy Machine Will Drilling Spell the End of a Quintessential American Landscape? Backing the Front: Fighting Oil and Gas Development in Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front Tar Sands, Pipelines, and the Threat to First Nations Sweet and Sour: The Curse of Oil in the Niger Delta Outsourcing Pollution and Energy-Intensive Production

PART SIX: DEPOWERING DESTRUCTION

Introduction: Toward an Energy Economy as if Nature Mattered The Case for Conservation Reinventing Fire Cap the Grid Protected Areas: Foundation of a Better Future Relationship with Energy Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming Distributed Renewable Generation: Why It Should Be the Centerpiece of U.S. Energy Policy No Ecological Sustainability without Limits to Growth

PART SEVEN: WHAT WE’RE FOR

What We’re For

Afterword: Places Where the Wind Carries the Ashes of Ancestors Acknowledgments Credits Contributors Endnotes Index Editors

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