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The Resource The petroleum papers : inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change, Geoff Dembicki

The petroleum papers : inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change, Geoff Dembicki

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The petroleum papers : inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change
Title
The petroleum papers
Title remainder
inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change
Statement of responsibility
Geoff Dembicki
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Language
eng
Summary
"Drawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, this explosive work of investigative reporting reveals for the first time the far-right conspiracy that's stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis. In The Petroleum Papers, investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki tells the story of how the American oil companies that founded the tar sands in Alberta, Canada--home to the third-biggest oil reserves on the planet--ignored warnings about climate devastation as early as 1959. Instead of alerting the world to act on this impending global disaster, Exxon, Koch Industries, Shell and others created ad campaigns saying climate change isn't real and that alternatives to oil are an economic disaster. These companies built a global right-wing echo chamber to ensure tar sands could keep flowing into the U.S., which helped elect Donald Trump and now leaves the Joe Biden administration with a sprawling climate mess. But Dembicki also tells the high-stakes stories of people fighting back: the Seattle lawyer who brought Big Tobacco to its knees and is now going after Big Oil, a young Filipina activist who saw her family drown in a climate disaster, and a former engineer at Exxon who was pushed out for asking too many hard questions. With experts now warning we have less than a decade to get global emissions under control, The Petroleum Papers provides a step-by-step account of how we got to this precipice and the politicians and companies who deserve our blame."--
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Issued also in electronic format.
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11081695
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Dembicki, Geoff
Dewey number
363.738/74
Index
index present
LC call number
QC903
LC item number
.D46 2022
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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David Suzuki Institute
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  • Climatic changes
  • Petroleum industry and trade
  • Right and left (Political science)
  • Climatic changes
  • Petroleum industry and trade
  • Right and left (Political science)
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inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change
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The petroleum papers : inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change, Geoff Dembicki
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
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rdacontent
Control code
on1291874425
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
285 pages
Isbn
9781771648912
Issuing body
Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
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  • n
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(OCoLC)1291874425
Label
The petroleum papers : inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change, Geoff Dembicki
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1291874425
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
285 pages
Isbn
9781771648912
Issuing body
Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1291874425

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