The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude by Nikiforuk, Andrew

The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781553659785)

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The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude by Nikiforuk, Andrew

The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude

$27.95
The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude by Nikiforuk, Andrew

The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude

$27.95
Format: Hardcover
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By the winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award

Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century slaveholders viewed critics as hostilely as oil companies and governments now regard environmentalists. Yet the abolition movement had an invisible ally: coal and oil. As the world's most versatile workers, fossil fuels replenished slavery's ranks with combustion engines and other labor-saving tools. Since then, cheap oil has transformed politics, economics, science, agriculture, and even our concept of happiness. Many North Americans today live as extravagantly as Caribbean plantation owners. We feel entitled to surplus energy and rationalize inequality, even barbarity, to get it. But endless growth is an illusion.

What we need, Andrew Nikiforuk argues in this provocative new book, is a radical emancipation movement that ends our master-and-slave approach to energy. We must learn to use energy on a moral, just, and truly human scale.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.



Author: Andrew Nikiforuk
ISBN-10: 1553659783
ISBN-13: 9781553659785
Publisher: Greystone Books
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2012
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 09/01/2012 pg. 32
By Andrew Nikiforuk
By Andrew Nikiforuk
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Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning Canadian journalist who has written about education, economics, and the environment for the last two decades. His books include Pandemonium; Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War against Oil, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction; The Fourth Horseman; and Tar Sands, which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and became a national bestseller.

His most recent book, Empire of the Beetle, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and selected as a top book of the year by both The Globe and Mail and Amazon.ca. He lives in Calgary, Alberta.

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