Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity - Debra J Davidson Mike Gismondi Gebunden

Human history has often been described as a progressive relinquishment from environmental constraints. Now it seems we have come full circle. The ecological irrationalities associated with industrial societies have a lengthy history and our purpose in the proposed book is not to catalogue this litany of wrongs. Rather this book is about political responses to global environmental crisis at a crucial turning point in history by focusing on the political discourses surrounding the tar sands in Alberta Canada.