Coal Wars

Coal Wars
Author :
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 284
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466879249
ISBN-13 : 1466879246
Rating : 4/5 (246 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Coal Wars by : Richard Martin

Download or read book Coal Wars written by Richard Martin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 18th century, when it emerged as a source of heating and, later, steam power, coal has brought untold benefits to mankind. Even today, coal generates almost 45 percent of the world's power. Our modern technological society would be inconceivable without coal and the energy it provides. Unfortunately, that society will not survive unless we wean ourselves off coal. The largest single source of greenhouse gases, coal is responsible for 43 percent of the world's carbon emissions. Richard Martin, author of SuperFuel, argues that to limit catastrophic climate change, we must find a way to power our world with less polluting energy sources, and we must do it in the next couple of decades—or else it is "game over." It won't be easy: as coal plants shut down across the United States, and much of Europe turns to natural gas, coal use is growing in the booming economies of Asia— particularly China and India. Even in Germany, where nuclear power stations are being phased out in the wake of the Fukushima accident, coal use is growing. Led by the Sierra Club and its ambitious "Beyond Coal" campaign, environmentalists hope to drastically reduce our dependence on coal in the next decade. But doing so will require an unprecedented contraction of an established, lucrative, and politically influential worldwide industry. Big Coal will not go gently. And its decline will dramatically change lives everywhere—from Appalachian coal miners and coal company executives to activists in China's nascent environmental movement. Based on a series of journeys into the heart of coal land, from Wyoming to West Virginia to China's remote Shanxi Province, hundreds of interviews with people involved in, or affected by, the effort to shrink the industry, and deep research into the science, technology, and economics of the coal industry, Coal Wars chronicles the dramatic stories behind coal's big shutdown—and the industry's desperate attempts to remain a global behemoth. A tour de force of literary journalism, Coal Wars will be a milestone in the climate change battle.


Coal Wars Related Books

Coal Wars
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Richard Martin
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-14 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Since the late 18th century, when it emerged as a source of heating and, later, steam power, coal has brought untold benefits to mankind. Even today, coal gener
Coal Wars
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: David Bullock
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Washington State University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sleepy little Roslyn has always been a coal town, ever since a railway company opened the first mine in 1886. Strikes are a way of life for central Washington m
The Devil Is Here in These Hills
Language: en
Pages: 447
Authors: James Green
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-03 - Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On Septem
Killing for Coal
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: Thomas G. Andrews
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rock
The Road to Blair Mountain
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Charles B. Keeney
Categories: Blair Mountain (W. Va.)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Keeney delivers a riveting and propulsive story about a nine-year battle to save sacred ground that was the site of the largest labor uprising in American hist