TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nikiforuk,Andrew
ED  - David Suzuki Foundation.
TI  - The energy of slaves: oil and the new servitude 
SN  - 9781553659785 (cloth)
AV  - HD 9560.6 N692e 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Vancouver, British Columbia, Berkeley [Calif.], Vancouver, BC
PB  - Greystone Books, David Suzuki Foundation
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Energy policy
KW  - Petróleo
KW  - Industria y comercio
KW  - Aspectos sociales
KW  - Industria del petróleo
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-269) and index; The energy of slaves -- Slaves to energy -- The oil pioneer -- The new servitude -- The unsettling of agriculture -- The Viagra of the species -- The urban fire -- The economist's delusion -- Peak science -- The petrostate -- The surplus devolution -- Oil and happiness -- Japan and the fragility of the petroleum age
N2  - By the winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century slaveholders viewed critics as hostilely as oil companies and governments now regard environmentalists. Yet the abolition movement had an invisible ally: coal and oil. As the world's most versatile workers, fossil fuels replenished slavery's ranks with combustion engines and other labor-saving tools. Since then, cheap oil has transformed politics, economics, science, agriculture, and
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