TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Robert
TI  - Carbon nation: fossil fuels in the making of American culture 
T2  - CultureAmerica
SN  - 9780700620043
AV  - HD9502.U52 J653 2014
U1  - 306.30973 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Lawrence, Kansas
PB  - University Press of Kansas
KW  - Fossil fuels
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Energy consumption
KW  - Energy industries
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - HISTORY / Social History
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Environmental conditions
KW  - Civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernity's Basement -- Part I: Divergence -- 1. A People of Prehistoric Carbon -- 2. Rocks and Bodies -- Part II: Submergence -- 3. An Upthrust into Barbarism -- 4. The Dynamo-Mother -- 5. A Faint Whiff of Gasoline -- Conclusion: A Return of the Repressed -- Appendix: Energy and Power -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
N2  - "A close look at our nation's conflicted love affair with fossil fuels (including coal, oil, and natural gas) and their pervasive impact on American life and culture. While carbon has literally fueled a relentless technological progress and provided the highest standard of living the world has ever seen, it's also been the engine for environmental and human degradation, a blithe consumerism unaware of its carbon dependency, and dangerously large concentrations of wealth and power. Focusing on this longstanding contradiction, Johnson argues that our embrace and celebration of carbon has been enabled by distancing ourselves from its costs"--
ER  -