TY - BOOK AU - Butler,Tom AU - Wuerthner,George TI - Energy: overdevelopment and the delusion of endless growth SN - 9780970950086 AV - TD195 .E49 E5475 2012 U1 - 621.042 22 PY - 2012///] CY - [Santa Rosa, CA.], Sausalito, CA. PB - Post Carbon Institute, Watershed Media KW - Power resources KW - Environmental aspects KW - Energy industries N2 - Takes an unflinching look at the systems that support our insatiable thrist for more power (and the ideas behind those systems) along with their unintended side effects. From oil spills, nuclear accidents, mountaintop-removal coal mining, and natural gas "fracking" to wind power projects and solar power plants, every source of energy has costs. Virtually every region of the globe now experiences the consequences of out-of-control energy development. No place is sacred, no landscape is safe from the relentless search for resources to power perpetual economic growth. Even the composition of the global atmosphere is affected ER -