Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental Crisis

by Toby C. Jones

The world's water is under siege. A combination of corporate greed, the elite pursuit of political power, and our unrelenting reliance on carbon-based energy is accerlating a broad range of environmental and political crises. Potentially catastrophic climate change, driven primarily by the consumption of oil and gas, threatens the environment in a variety of ways, including producing unprecedented patterns of heavy weather and superstorms in some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813569966
• ISBN13: 9780813569963
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"