Andrew Nikiforuk
Autor von Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
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Bildnachweis: From the author official page: http://www.andrewnikiforuk.com/
Werke von Andrew Nikiforuk
The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Epidemics, Plagues, Famine and Other Scourges (1991) 97 Exemplare
Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests (2011) 46 Exemplare
Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century (2006) 39 Exemplare
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand against the World's Most Powerful Industry (2015) 10 Exemplare
When the Oil Runs Out (Article) 1 Exemplar
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- Geburtstag
- 1955
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Canada
- Wohnorte
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Berufe
- journalist
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- Matt Cohen Prize (2013)
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Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent von Andrew Nikiforuk
UGH.
Nikiforuk's frame of linking fossil fuel use and servitude is excellent and bears repeating. It is is not sufficient for an entire book, though, so I I skimmed through most of it after the first chapter or two.
Wow, great read heartbreaking and life-affirming at the same time. Nikiforuk really brings out the complexity of the beetle-tree interaction and tries to disabuse us of the notion that we can control ecosystems.
Anyone who is interested in what the Alberta Tar Sands are doing to the environment must read this book. Nikiforuk meticulously, and with excellent references, tracks the history of Tar Sands development, the ridiculous waste of resources and the outsized environmental footprint of the ever expanding operation.
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