Green Illusions : : the Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism

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I: Seductive futures -- Solar cells and other fairy tales -- Wind power's flurry of limitations -- Biofuels and the politics of big corn -- The nuclear-military-industrial risk complex -- The hydrogen zombie -- Conjuring clean coal -- Hydropower, hybrids, and other hydras -- II: From here to there -- The alternative-energy fetish -- The first step -- III: The future of environmentalism -- Women's rights -- Improving consumption -- The architecture of community -- Efficiency culture -- Asking questions -- Epilogue: A grander narrative?
We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what's wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem.

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Our sustainable future.

PUBLISHED
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xx, 437 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780803237759
0803237758

SUBJECTS
Renewable energy sources.
Environmentalism.