{"product_id":"unsustainable-oil-jon-gordon-9781772120363","title":"Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions","description":"\"Sustainable development is, for government and industry at least, primarily a way of turning trees into lumber, tar into oil, and critique into consent; a way to defend the status quo of growth at any cost.\" --from the Introduction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, Jon Gordon makes the case for re-evaluating the theoretical, political, and environmental issues around petroleum extraction. Doing so, he argues, will reinvigorate our understanding of the culture and the ethics of energy production in Canada. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRather than looking for better facts or better interpretations of the facts, Gordon challenges us to embrace the future after oil. Reading fiction can help us understand the cultural-ecological crisis that we inhabit. In Unsustainable Oil, using the lens of Alberta's bituminous sands, he asks us to consider literature's potential to open space for creative alternatives.","brand":"University of Alberta Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50963281477825,"sku":"9781772120363","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9781772120363.jpg?v=1794704408","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/unsustainable-oil-jon-gordon-9781772120363","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}