No immediate danger, William T. Vollmann
Type
Label
No immediate danger, William T. Vollmann
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
No immediate danger
Oclc number
1029621444
Responsibility statement
William T. Vollmann
Series statement
Carbon ideologies, volume 1
Summary
The first volume in a timely series about climate change and energy generation focuses on the consequences of nuclear-power production through the events and aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011
Table Of Contents
0. When we kept the lights on -- PRIMER -- What was the work for?. About waste ; About demand -- What was the work for? (continued). About power -- What was the work for? (continued) -- Carbon ideologies approached. About data ; About data suppression ; About disbelief -- "Consider it good fortune" -- Carbon ideologies defined. About carbon ; About agriculture ; About industrial chemicals ; The parable of adipic acid ; About manufacturing ; About transportation ; About power plants -- Power and climate. About solar energy ; About greenhouse gases ; About fuels -- NUCLEAR -- Nuclear ideology. About uranium ; About nuclear reactors -- 1. Lower than for real estate agents -- March 2011: When the wind blows from the South (Fukushima) -- February 2014: Harmful rumors (Fukushima) -- October 2014, with a Hanford Excursion in August 2015: the Red Zones (Hanford, Washington; Fukushima) -- Normalization on the rocks -- Postscript: Japan sees the light
Target audience
adult
resource.variantTitle
Carbon ideologies, no immediate danger