Petroleum Papers
Subtitle: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy That Stole Our Chance of Stopping Climate Change
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd.
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Vancouver, Canada; Berkeley, USA; London, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781771648912
Copyright date: 2022
First sentence: Midway through as historic congressional hearing about whether some of the world's largest oil companies lied to the public about climate change, I noticed something odd.
Table of contents: title: 1
pagenum: Introduction; label: I: THE FIRST WARNINGS (1959-2013); title: 9
pagenum: "Just another storm"; title: 14
pagenum: "Men on a hunt"; title: 19
pagenum: "A gift from God"; title: 26
pagenum: "We were all so desperate"; title: 34
pagenum: "Operation Oilsands"; title: 41
pagenum: "A million pieces"; label: II: THE EARLY CONSTRUCTION OF DENIAL (1968-1988); title: 47
pagenum: "He seemed embarrased"; title: 52
pagenum: "Ahead of the game"; title: 59
pagenum: "Very strong interests at stake"; title: 66
pagenum: "Pitted against our very survival"; label: III: SOLUTIONS KNOWN AND SABOTAGED (1988-2002); title: 75
pagenum: "Threaten the existence"; title: 81
pagenum: "I feel embarrased"; title: 85
pagenum: "We have to get this right"; title: 89
pagenum: "Americans can't hear the whistle"; title: 97
pagenum: "The dumbest-assed thing"; label: IV: A PUBLIC AWAKENING (1997-2008); title: 105
pagenum: "Victory will be achieved"; title: 107
pagenum: "They lied about everything"; title: 115
pagenum: "Saudi Arabia of the western world"; title: 119
pagenum: "What Makes Weather?"; title: 124
pagenum: "Global energy powerhouse"; label: V: BLAME CANADA (2006-2010); title: 133
pagenum: "Back off dudes!"; title: 137
pagenum: "A full-on barney"; title: 142
pagenum: "Public embarrassment"; title: 146
pagenum: "They're struggling forward"; title: 152
pagenum: "Global warming!"; label: VI: THE CLIMATE GOES TO COURT (2008-2014); title: 161
pagenum: "The island is sad that it's going away"; title: 166
pagenum: "A way to justify exploitation"; title: 171
pagenum: "I remember being angry every day"; label: VII: WELL-OILED ALLIES (2016-2019); title: 177
pagenum: "Stacked with friends"; title: 180
pagenum: "Friends with unexpected places"; title: 188
pagenum: "It just kept going and going"; title: 193
pagenum: "This is an avalanche"; title: 198
pagenum: "We are the beating heart"; title: 206
pagenum: "They surrounded me"; label: VIII: THE RIGHT TO LIVE (2020-2022); title: 215
pagenum: "Robbed of their options"; title: 222
pagenum: "Why wouldn't I choose the right thing to do?"; title: 232
pagenum: "Is there risk?"; title: 239
pagenum: Epilogue; title: 243
pagenum: Acknowledgments; title: 247
pagenum: Notes; title: 273
pagenum: Index