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The poverty of power : energy and the economic crisis
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"Now, The Poverty of Power shows the startling and frightening connections between pollution, economic stagnation and vanishing energy reserves. No one has ever asked so many on-target questions ab...
"Now, The Poverty of Power shows the startling and frightening connections between pollution, economic stagnation and vanishing energy reserves. No one has ever asked so many on-target questions about this triple crisis - or come up with such devastating answers."--Page 4 of cover.
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- Creator
- Barry Commoner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Bantam Books, 1977
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- 297 pages ; 18 cm
- ISBNs
- 0553108565, 9780553108569, 0553143158, 9780553143157
- OCLC
- ocm02933272, ocm02933272
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The problem -- Thermodynamics, the science of energy -- The fossil fuels: oil -- The fossil fuels: coal -- Nuclear power -- The sun -- The uses of power -- The price of power -- The poverty of power
Subjects
- Power resources.
- Power (Mechanics)
- Energy policy -- United States.
- United States -- Economic policy -- 1971-1981.
- Economic history.
- Energy-Generating Resources
Medical Subject Heading
- energy resources.
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