Hydrocarbon Nation : How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us /

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"In Hydrocarbon Nation, Thor Hogan looks at how four technological revolutions--industrial, agricultural, transportation, and electrification--drew upon the enormous hydrocarbon wealth of the United States, transforming the young country into a nation with unparalleled economic and military pot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hogan, Thor (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Petroleum industry and trade > Government policy.
Hydrocarbons.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
SCIENCE > Chemistry > Organic.
Hydrocarbures > États-Unis > Histoire.
Petrole > Industrie et commerce > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Hydrocarbons > United States > History.
Petroleum industry and trade > Government policy > United States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In Hydrocarbon Nation, Thor Hogan looks at how four technological revolutions--industrial, agricultural, transportation, and electrification--drew upon the enormous hydrocarbon wealth of the United States, transforming the young country into a nation with unparalleled economic and military potential. Each of these advances engendered new government policies aimed at strengthening national and economic security. The result was unprecedented energy security and the creation of a nation nearly impervious to outside threats. However, when this position weakened in the decades after the peaking of domestic conventional oil supplies in 1970, the American political and economic systems were severely debilitated. At the same time, climate change was becoming a major concern. Fossil fuels created the modern world, yet burning them created a climate crisis. Hogan argues that everyday Americans and policymakers alike must embrace the complexity of this contradiction in order to help society chart a path forward. Doing so, Hogan explains, will allow us to launch a critically important sustainability revolution capable of providing energy and climate security in the future. Hydrocarbon Nation provides reasons to believe that we can succeed in expanding on the benefits of the Hydrocarbon Age in order to build a sustainable future."--EBSCO
Descripción Física:1 online resource (440 pages).
ISBN:9781421425078

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