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    'Carbon Ideologies' examines – exhaustively – non-renewable energy

    Jul 16, 2018 3 minutes

    The latest work from National Book Award-winning author William Vollmann is a thing of nearly monstrous ambition. Carbon Ideologies is a 1,200-page book published in two 600-page volumes of fierce, relentless clarification (the Table of Contents has footnotes), studying at exhaustive length modern humanity's relationship with non-renewable energy sources like coal, natural gas, oil, and most of all nuclear power.

    Volume 1 – "No Immediate Danger," which Vollmann himself refers to, with alarming candor, as “particularly uninviting” – concentrates on the larger picture and the end

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