The Risks of Dead Reckoning: A Postscript on Oil, Climate Change, and Political Time.

The article discusses the petroleum industry, climate change, and politics as of June 2012 and how contemporary historians can establish a foundation for studying such subjects. The author examines what she calls U.S. attachment to petroleum-based energy and the implications it has upon the environm...

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Published in:	Journal of American History Vol. 99; no. 1; pp. 252 - 256
Main Author:	Merrill, Karen R.
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Jun2012
Subjects:	History of the petroleum industry Economics Climate change United States climate change policy Historians McKibben, Bill, 1960- Climatology Public opinion Energy industries United States
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost