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The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
Houghton Mifflin
June 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 0618319409
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
President Bush has said coal is America's "economic
destiny." Despite a century-long legacy that has claimed
millions of lives and ravaged the environment, why has coal
become hot again? Few of us realize that coal already
supplies more than half the energy needed to power our
iPods, laptops, lightsanything we use that consumes
electricity. Every time we flip on a switch, we burn a lump
of coal. Our desire to find a homegrown alternative to
Mideast oil, the rising cost of oil and natural gas, and the
fossil fuelfriendly mood in Washington will soon push our
coal consumption through the roof. Because we have failed to
develop alternative energy sources, coal has become the
default fuel for the twenty-first century. In the tradition
of Rachel Carson and Eric Schlosser, the veteran journalist
Jeff Goodell examines the faulty assumptions underlying
coal's revival and shatters the myth of cheap coal energy.
In a compelling blend of hard-hitting investigative
reporting, history, and business analysis, Big Coal
illuminates the stark economic imperatives America faces and
the collusion of business and politics that has already set
us on the dangerous course. Filled with troubling
environmental and health revelations, Big Coal shows us that
our shiny white iPod economy is propped up by dirty black rocks.
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