Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment

So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies is a bold reappraisal of the outsized role fossil fuels have played in making the environment visible, factual, and politically operable in North America. Following stories of hydrocarbon harm that lay the groundwork for environmental science and policy, this book brings into clear focus the dialectic between the negative ecologies of fossil fuels and the ongoing discovery of the environment. Exploring iconic sites of the oil economy, ranging from leaky Caribbean refineries to deepwater oil spills, from the petrochemical fallout of plastics manufacturing to the extractive frontiers of Canada, Negative Ecologies documents the upheavals, injuries, and disasters that have long accompanied fossil fuels and the manner in which our solutions have often been less about confronting the cause than managing the effects. This history of our present promises to re-situate scholarly understandings of fossil fuels and renovate environmental critique today. David Bond challenges us to consider what forms of critical engagement may now be needed to both confront the deleterious properties of fossil fuels and envision ways of living beyond them.

Bond, David

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

University of California Press

So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies is a bold reappraisal of the outsized role fossil fuels have played in making the environment visible, factual, and politically operable in North America. Following stories of hydrocarbon harm that lay the groundwork for environmental science and policy, this book brings into clear focus the dialectic between the negative ecologies of fossil fuels and the ongoing discovery of the environment. Exploring iconic sites of the oil economy, ranging from leaky Caribbean refineries to deepwater oil spills, from the petrochemical fallout of plastics manufacturing to the extractive frontiers of Canada, Negative Ecologies documents the upheavals, injuries, and disasters that have long accompanied fossil fuels and the manner in which our solutions have often been less about confronting the cause than managing the effects. This history of our present promises to re-situate scholarly understandings of fossil fuels and renovate environmental critique today. David Bond challenges us to consider what forms of critical engagement may now be needed to both confront the deleterious properties of fossil fuels and envision ways of living beyond them.\nFrom the Back Cover\n"This riveting history of the present explores petrochemical capitalism's ongoing assault on planetary conditions. Showing how environmental thresholds and assessments have been organized not as protections against but as authorizations for pollution, this book unpacks with passion and precision the amplifying force of industrial toxicity. An essential book for our times."—Joseph Masco, author of The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making\n"Negative Ecologies is a bold and brilliant exemplar of what a critical adisciplinary scholarship needs today. One wants to underline every sentence, to asterisk every page. I can think of no ethnographic work, no social inquiry that forecasts with such power and purpose the subversive work demanded of those with the resources to confront and document how the embrace of fossil fuels is decimating the US and the world."—Ann Laura Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research\n"David Bond has a different sort of oil story to tell. Wide-ranging and multifaceted, Negative Ecologies inventories the enormity of oil's catastrophic impact on planetary life. Bond shows how oil spills and petro-disasters are generative, the means by which the environment is known, governed, and normalized through toxicity thresholds and environmental impact assessments that narrow what constitutes evidence, interpretation, and regulation. Bond brilliantly reveals how oil's negative ecologies produce new landscapes of vulnerability, new mappings of the mediums of harm, and new responsibilities."—Michael Watts, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of California, Berkeley\n"This book challenges us to think in new, powerful ways about the origins of the environment as a category of knowledge, the production of knowledge, and the predicament of human dependence on fossil fuels."—Kathryn Morse, author of The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush\n"Read this! It calls us back to fundamental questions about how the environment has been conceptualized, pointing to the risks of thinking in established terms. Thinking with Bond in terms of negative ecologies is a powerful alternative."—Kim Fortun, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

The seventh edition of Birt's Accounting textbook is designed for the core accounting unit in a business or commerce degree. Many students who plan to major in soft-side disciplines such as marketing or human resource management need a clear and accessible text that emphasises the relevance of accounting to business. The Accounting interactive e-text features a range of instructional media content designed to provide students with an engaging learning experience. This includes practitioner videos from Ernst &amp; Young, animated work problems and questions with immediate feedback. Birt’s unique resource can also form the basis of a blended learning solution for lecturers.

Accounting: Business Reporting for Decision Making, 7th Edition: Business Reporting for Decision Making

Business & Money

Maloney, Suzanne

Birt, Jacqueline

Chalmers, Keryn

Brooks, Albie

Oliver, Judy

Accounting

wiley

This title traces the changing designs and styles of women's, men's and children's fashions from the early 1900s to the 1980s.

The Guinness guide to 20th century fashion

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Guinness Superlatives

Surveys clothing styles from the 1900s to 1970s, noting correlations between fashion and social and cultural changes

The Guinness Guide to 20th Century Fashion

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Guinness Guide to 20th Century Homes

History

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Glamour in Fashion

Decorative Arts & Design

Gullane Children's Books

Riding High: A Gleeful Glossary of East Yorkshire Place Names

Hutton Press Ltd

The poems of Colors reflect the hues of life, from a cousin's death to the mining of coal.

Colors

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

BookSurge Publishing

Work Hard, Pay The Price, Make It Happen is a true story of a man living out his simple mission. David Bond is living proof that these three simple principles can motivate, change, and impact his life and the lives of others. His fierce dedication and passion for business, family, and relationships are clearly on display from beginning to end. From sharing his crazy, heart-racing adventures to vulnerable, conflicting struggles, David learns valuable, sometimes difficult, life-lessons along the way. This story was not easy for David to write. However, God planted a dream of writing a book to share his story, so that you can learn from his failures and successes."I will always remember the hot summer days when I was pushing a lawnmower. I was saturated in sweat from head to toe, covered in grass clippings, working hard trying to earn a buck and help someone that could not do it themselves. I had to work hard, pay the price, and make it happen every day..."-- David Bond

Work Hard, Pay The Price, Make It Happen: How One Simple Lesson On Hard Work Altered My Life

Self-Help

Success

David Bond

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