Oil, globalization, and the war for the Arctic refuge / David M. Standlea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Standlea, David M., 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--United States.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum--Prospecting--Environmental aspects--Alaska--Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Petroleum.

Oil well drilling--Environmental aspects--Alaska--Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Oil well drilling.

Petroleum industry and trade--Military aspects--United States.

Corporate state--United States.

Corporate state.

Energy policy--United States.

Energy policy.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The global consumption of fossil fuels is dramatically rising, while inversely, the supply is in permanent decline. The "end of oil" threatens the very future of Western civilization. Oil, Globalization, and the War for the Arctic Refuge examines the politics of drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and presents this controversy as a precursor of future "resource wars" where ideas and values collide and polarize. The reader is introduced to the primary participants involved: global corporations, politicians, nongovernmental organizations, indigenous peoples and organizations, and human rights/religious organizations. Author David M. Standlea argues in favor of seeing this comparatively "local" conflict as part of a larger struggle between the proponents of an alternative, positive vision for the future and an American culture presently willing to sacrifice that future for immediate profit.

Contents:

Intro

Oil, Globalization, and the War for the Arctic Refuge

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part 1. Oil and the Corporate State

1. Globalism, Oil, and the Power Elites

2. Background to Battle: The Thirty Years' War

3. The Oil Companies: A Legacy of Global Power

4. The Corporate State

5. The Culture of Corporation Spin

Part 2. Sustainability and Justice

6. The Environmentalists: Visions under Siege

7. The Gwich'in: A Fight to the End

8. The Religious Community: Philosophers of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

9. Prophets vs. Profits: Future Scenarios and Outcomes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-193) and index.

ISBN:

9780791482391

0791482391

9781423755784

1423755782

OCLC:

64560512