Title: Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
Description: In its desperate search for oil and gas riches, Alberta is destroying itself as the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpetbombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells. In so doing, it is running out of water, depleting its range land, wiping out its forests and wildlife and spewing huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, adding to global warming at a rate that is unrivalled in Canada or almost anywhere else in the world. Alberta is digging, drilling and blasting its way to oblivion, becoming the ultimate symbol of Canada's - and the world's - pathological will to self-destruct.
Nowhere has the world seen such colossal environmental damage as is being wreaked on Alberta. At one point the province even considered nuking its underbelly with thousands of atom bombs to get at the oil sands. Stupid to the Last Drop looks at the increasingly violent geopolitical forces that are gathering as the world's gas and oil resources dwindle and the Age of Oil begins its inevitable slide towards oblivion. As Canadians deplete their energy reserves, selling them off to Americans at bargain-basement prices, no thought is given to conservation or the long-term needs of the nation.
Contents:
Prologue --- We Have the Technology
PART I --- TECHNOLOGY AND MUTUAL DESTRUCTION
Highway to Heaven
Manley Natland's Fantasy
Early Signs of Madness
Breaking Alberta's Atom
PART II --- THE POLITICS AND BUSINESS OF OIL Washington's Doomsday Politics
Roll Call
Getting the Jump on the Energy Game
The Mauling of Big Bear
PART III ---ALIEN INVASION Life on Mars
Hello! Is Anybody Out There?
Heaven on the Moon
Down North
The Last Cowboys and Cowgirls
Epilogue --- To the Last Drop
By: William Marsden
Genre: Environment – Oil Drilling – History – Alberta, Canada
Cover: Hardcover with Dustjacket
Publisher & Date: Alfred A. Knopf – 2007 – First Edition
Approx. Dimensions: 5-3/4” x 8-3/4” – 248 pages
Condition: Very Good+
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