Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life

A Tar Sands Tale

Matt Hern, Am Johal (Director of Community Engagement, Simon Fraser University), Joe Sacco , Louis Helbig

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English

MIT Press
30 March 2018

Memoirs; Pollution & threats to the environment

Series: Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life

Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises.

Confounded by global warming and in search of an affirmative politics that links ecology with social change, Matt Hern and Am Johal set off on a series of road trips to the tar sands of northern Alberta-perhaps the world's largest industrial site, dedicated to the dirty work of extracting oil from Alberta's vast reserves. Traveling from culturally liberal, self-consciously ""green"" Vancouver, and aware that our well-meaning performances of recycling and climate-justice marching are accompanied by constant driving, flying, heating, and fossil-fuel consumption, Hern and Johal want to talk to people whose lives and fortunes depend on or are imperiled by extraction. They are seeking new definitions of ecology built on a renovated politics of land. Traveling with them is their friend Joe Sacco-infamous journalist and cartoonist, teller of complex stories from Gaza to Paris-who contributes illustrations and insights and a chapter-length comic about the contradictions of life in an oil town. The epic scale of the ecological horror is captured through an series of stunning color photos by award-winning aerial photographer Louis Helbig.

Seamlessly combining travelogue, sophisticated political analysis, and ecological theory, speaking both to local residents and to leading scholars, the authors propose a new understanding of ecology that links the domination of the other-than-human world to the domination of humans by humans. They argue that any definition of ecology has to start with decolonizationand that confronting global warming requires a politics that speaks to a different way of being in the world-a reconstituted understanding of the sweetness of life.

Published with the help of funding from Furthermore- a program of the J. M. Kaplan fund

By: Matt Hern, Am Johal (Director of Community Engagement, Simon Fraser University)
Illustrated by: Joe Sacco
Contributions by: Louis Helbig
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
ISBN: 9780262037648
ISBN 10: 0262037645
Series: Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 30 March 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matt Hern is a founder of Solid State Industries, teaches at multiple universities, and lectures widely. He is the author of What a City Is For- Remaking the Politics of Displacement (MIT Press) among many other books. Am Johal is Director of Simon Fraser University's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and author of Ecological Metapolitics- Badiou and the Anthropocene. Joe Sacco is a cartoonist and author of Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, Footnotes in Gaza, and other works of journalism. He lives in Portland with a vodka martini.

Reviews for Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale

A book like no other - one of the most peculiar I have read in a while... A highly intelligent and inspiring read.-E&T Magazine A book like no other - one of the most peculiar I have read in a while... A highly intelligent and inspiring read.-E&T Magazine * Reviews *