Quarterly Essay Issue 33. Quarry Vision

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Black Inc
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 129 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Coal, Climate Change And The End Of The Resources Boom. Australia's Response To Climate Change Must Truly Baffle Outsiders.

Publishers Description: This is an essay about “quarry vision”, the mindset that sees Australia’s greatest asset as its mineral and energy resources – coal especially. How has this distorted our national politics and our response to climate change? What happens now that our coal-fired resources boom has gone bust?In this powerful essay about the national interest, Guy Pearse discusses the future of the coal industry and argues with the economic orthodoxy. He exposes the shadowy world of greenhouse lobbyists; how they think, operate and skin cats. Quarry vision, he argues, is a carbon-laced trap and a blind faith and a mentality we can no longer afford.

ISBN: 9781863953757