{"product_id":"the-energy-of-slaves-oil-and-the-new-servitude-hardcover","title":"The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Nikiforuk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAncient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century slaveholders viewed critics as hostilely as oil companies and governments now regard environmentalists. Yet the abolition movement had an invisible ally: coal and oil. As the world's most versatile workers, fossil fuels replenished slavery's ranks with combustion engines and other labor-saving tools. Since then, cheap oil has transformed politics, economics, science, agriculture, and even our concept of happiness. Many North Americans today live as extravagantly as Caribbean plantation owners. We feel entitled to surplus energy and rationalize inequality, even barbarity, to get it. But endless growth is an illusion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat we need, \u003cb\u003eAndrew Nikiforuk\u003c\/b\u003e argues in this provocative new book, is a radical emancipation movement that ends our master-and-slave approach to energy. We must learn to use energy on a moral, just, and truly human scale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Nikiforuk\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning Canadian journalist who has written about education, economics, and the environment for the last two decades. His books include \u003ci\u003ePandemonium\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSaboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War against Oil\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction; \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Horseman\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eTar Sands\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and became a national bestseller. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis most recent book, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of the Beetle\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and selected as a top book of the year by both \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e and Amazon.ca. He lives in Calgary, Alberta.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 18, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47575741268189,"sku":"9781553659785","price":30.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/2pKKW6bacO9781553659785.webp?v=1773445882","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-energy-of-slaves-oil-and-the-new-servitude-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}