Oil, globalization, and the war for the arctic refuge
By: David M. Standlea.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780791466315; 9780791466322
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- United States; Petroleum -- Prospecting -- Environmental aspects -- Alaska -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; Oil well drilling -- Environmental aspects -- Alaska -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; Petroleum industry and trade -- Military aspects -- United States; Corporate state -- United States; Energy policy -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Oil and the corporate state; title: Globalism, oil, and the power elites; title: Background to battle: the thirty years' war; title: The oil companies: legacies of global power; title: The corporate state; title: The culture of corporate spin; title: Sustainability and justice; title: The environmentalists: visions under siege; title: The Gwich'in: a fight to the end; title: The religious community: philosophers of ANWR; title: Prophets vs profits: future scenarios and outcomes.