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Hydrocarbon Nation:

How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us
  • ISBN-13: 9781421425061
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Thor Hogan
  • Price: AUD $135.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/07/2018
  • Format: Hardback 440 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Military history [HBW]
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In Hydrocarbon Nation, Thor Hogan looks at how four technological revolutions'industry, agriculture, transportation, and electrification'drew upon the enormous hydrocarbon wealth of the United States, transforming the 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, 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.

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
Part I
1. Steam, National Security, and the First Political Age
2. Coal, Macroeconomic Security, and the Second Political Age
3. Oil, Microeconomic Security, and the Third Political Age
Part II
4. Energy Insecurity and the American Decline
5. Gas and National Renewal in the Fourth Political Age
6. Climate Security and a Sustainability Revolution
Epilogue
Notes
Index

""""Hogan... writes passionately of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels to solve the looming climate crisis... By not implicitly demonizing hydrocarbons, Hydrocarbon Nation is much more persuasive... Bracing and opinionated, Hydrocarbon Nation is a worthwhile exploration backward and forward.""

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