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This thoroughly researched and wholly engaging book investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline—a project so controversial it has inspired the largest expression of civil disobedience since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. With enough carbon trapped in the Canadian tar sands to plunge the Earth into irreversible climate change, it is the Keystone XL pipeline that will set that carbon free. The debate rages on over whether this 2,100-mile long steel pipeline is a vital piece America’s energy future or the conduit for global climate disaster. From the enormous tar sands mines in Alberta to a tree-top blockade in Texas, this book introduces the people and explores the competing interests that power the environmental issue of the current generation.



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Samuel Avery

Samuel Avery was raised near New York City and educated at Oberlin College and the University of Kentucky. He has written a series of books on the relationship of physics and consciousness, including The Dimensional Structure of Consciousness, Transcendence of the Western Mind, and Buddha and the Quantum. He is passionate about peace and environmental issues, having written The Globalist Papers and The Pipeline and the Paradigm. Samuel lives with his wife on a small wooded farm on the banks of the Nolin River in central Kentucky. He spends his time gardening, building, writing, and operating a small solar installation company. He has practiced meditation daily throughout his adult life. "On the farm," he says, "We have to find reliable sources of water, food, warmth, and energy. We see where our lives come from."



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