Bibliograph

Unsustainable oil, facts, counterfacts and fictions, Jon Gordon

Type

Label

Unsustainable oil, facts, counterfacts and fictions, Jon Gordon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Unsustainable oil

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jon Gordon

Sub title

facts, counterfacts and fictions

Summary

"Sustainable development is, for government and industry at least, primarily a way of turning trees into lumber, tar into oil, and critique into consent; a way to defend the status quo of growth at any cost." -from the Introduction. In Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, Jon Gordon makes the case for re-evaluating the theoretical, political, and environmental issues around petroleum extraction. Doing so, he argues, will reinvigorate our understanding of the culture and the ethics of energy production in Canada. Rather than looking for better facts or better interpretations of the facts, Gordon challenges us to embrace the future after oil. Reading fiction can help us understand the cultural-ecological crisis that we inhabit. In Unsustainable Oil, using the lens of Alberta's bituminous sands, he asks us to consider literature's potential to open space for creative alternatives

Target audience

adult

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