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Chargement... No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologiespar William T. Vollmann
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. There were several times when the monotony of his interviews set my mind adrift, but overall this is a book worthy of our attention. Who else but WTV, at this time in our history of letters, is equipped to take on such a contentious and, more often than not, ambiguous topic: carbon. More specifically, the dangers of converting carbon, from coal, oil, natural gas, etc. This first volume of his two-part Carbon Ideologies is split into three parts: (1) a 200-page primer that covers everything you could want to know about energy consumption and greenhouse emissions; a 300-page journalistic adventure as only WTV could present; and (3) a compendium of definitions, conversions charts, etc., akin to the appendixes found in his Seven Dreams novels. I'm relatively new to WTV, but already I am blown away by his intelligence, curiosity, and work ethic. This guys reads and writes for 16 hours a day, I've heard, and lives devoid of a TV, cell phone, etc. Above all, this book stimulated my own concern and curiosity about environmental issues that I am more inclined to ignore--after all, there is "no immediate danger." Already I have jumped into studying water life cycles, organic gardening, composting, and interviewing local entities involved in our collective carbon footprint in one way or another. ( ) Everyone is encouraging that I power on through the next volume. There is some haunting journalism here. There's also a great deal of scattered analysis and attendant hand wringing. My wife bought me both volumes for my birthday and they arrived while I was till on my sojourn at the resort. She read 100 pages and we discussed such yesterday. the helplessness of everyone. People acting in good faith. How Vollmann hectors people, particularly the 25 year old and asks why since she's Japanese she's comfortable nuclear energy given the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is from this position of impotence that the survey of radiation is especially nuanced. It is an invisible phenomenon, much like our strange non-empirical relationship with electricity and petrol. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important issues of our age. Now, Vollmann turns to a topic that will define the generations to come-the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger, the first volume of Carbon Ideologies, by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change, from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction, economic demand for electric power, and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort. Turning to nuclear power first, Vollmann then recounts multiple visits that he made at significant personal risk over the course of seven years to the contaminated no-go zones and sad ghost towns of Fukushima, Japan, beginning shortly after the tsunami and reactor meltdowns of 2011. Equipped first only with a dosimeter and then with a scintillation counter, he measured radiation and interviewed tsunami victims, nuclear evacuees, anti-nuclear organizers, and pro-nuclear utility workers. Featuring Vollmann's signature wide learning, sardonic wit, and encyclopedic research, No Immediate Danger builds up a powerful, sobering picture of the ongoing nightmare of Fukushima. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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