Global warming and the sweetness of life : a tar sands tale

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Label

Global warming and the sweetness of life : a tar sands tale

Title remainder

a tar sands tale

Statement of responsibility

Matt Hern and Am Johal ; with Joe Sacco

Creator

• Hern, Matt

Contributor

• Johal, Am
• Sacco, Joe

Subject

• Alberta -- Social life and customs
• Oil sands -- Environmental aspects -- Alberta | Fort McMurray Region
• Petroleum engineering -- Social aspects -- Alberta | Fort McMurray Region

Language

eng

Summary

Confounded by global warming and in search of an affirmative politics that links ecology with social change, Matt Hern and Am Johal set off on a series of road trips to the tar sands of northern Alberta -- perhaps the world's largest industrial site, dedicated to the dirty work of extracting oil from Alberta's vast reserves. Traveling from culturally liberal, self-consciously "green" Vancouver, and aware that our well-meaning performances of recycling and climate-justice marching are accompanied by constant driving, flying, heating, and fossil-fuel consumption, Hern and Johal want to talk to people whose lives and fortunes depend on or are imperiled by extraction. They are seeking new definitions of ecology built on a renovated politics of land. Traveling with them is their friend Joe Sacco -- infamous journalist and cartoonist, teller of complex stories from Gaza to Paris -- who contributes illustrations and insights and a chapter-length comic about the contradictions of life in an oil town

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography