Toxic futures
Subtitle: South Africa in the crises of energy, environment and capital
By: David Hallowes
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; groundWork
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Scottsville, South Africa; [Pietermaritzburg]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781869142117
Subjects: Climatic changes; Environmental justice; Environmental aspects; Power resources; Economic development; Energy policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Unequal South Africa; Carbon economy; The global scale of ecological debt; title: 1. Elite crisis. Imperial crisis; Energy in crisis; Environmental crisis; Dust and ashes; title: 2. The Vaal in South Africa. The concentration of power; Fronts of environmental injustice; Another Vaal; title: 3. New South Africa. Negotiating the future; Environmental policy; Paint it green; title: 4. The toxic cradle of production. The sacrifice to mining; Steeling the future; Power to aluminum; Toxics to cement; Leaving ruin; title: 5. Peak poison.  Failing future; title: 6. The chains of petro production. Africa's oil rush; Refining environmental justice; Chemicals and plastic; title: 7. Power trip. Centralising power; Darkest Cape; The logic of an elite future; title: 8. Future power. Things fall apart; Remaking the coal economy; Terminal logic; title: 9. Driving climate change. False dealings; South Africa's offer. 10. Change coming. For people's power.