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No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies: 2

(Carbon Ideologies #2)

William T. Vollmann

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“The Infinite Jest of climate books.” —The Baffler

“Incontestably important.” —The San Francisco Chronicle

An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production--the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William T. Vollmann on the ideologies of energy production and the causes of climate change

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Jun 24, 2018 Nathan "N.R." Gaddis added it · review of another edition

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[this my third Review today so I'lls keep it short for ya]

It should be known, Viking made a serious mistake pub'ing this in two volumes. Let it be made clear, this is a single work, a single book. I have to make that clear because I was a little non=plussed with that first volume (a lot of number crunching, a lot of frisking; Japan and nuclear aren't up there on the top of my interests generally) ;; but it's only the ground laying and beginning of his argument. It's just the laying down of some [this my third Review today so I'lls keep it short for ya]

It should be known, Viking made a serious mistake pub'ing this in two volumes. Let it be made clear, this is a single work, a single book. I have to make that clear because I was a little non=plussed with that first volume (a lot of number crunching, a lot of frisking; Japan and nuclear aren't up there on the top of my interests generally) ;; but it's only the ground laying and beginning of his argument. It's just the laying down of some track, not the blasting ahead over the rails with a full head of steam.

Let it be known, some folks have had a hard time with Vollmann's concept of 'ideology' ; a concept that would not be all that unfamiliar to the average reader of Zizek. Look, those who stutter askance that a pro- (or anti-) nuke person is a 'carbon ideologue', those are the type for whom it's always the other guy who's got the ideology while they are free (how blessed!) of the contamination of ideology. The point is that the entire energy discussion revolves around the question of carbon ; nuke is only significant in relation to this question. The claim made is that all energy questions reference carbon and are thus all positions are carbon ideologies. Every structured set or system of beliefs is an ideology (most clearly is the "I have no ideology" guy an ideologue).

At any rate, this second volume raises the whole project up to the level of Vollmann's other best non-fic work--Poor People, Imperial, RURD. Here for the most part we aren't dealing with a language barrier as in the first volume and so the interviewees tend to take up pages at a time rather than a few words or a small paragraph (which the UAE and Bangladeshi sections here make clear). This is of course one of Vollmann's strongest journalist points, letting his subjects speak for themselves and in their own words and own tones. Here too of course is a wider diversity of energies, as we deal with coal and gas and oil. Diversity also of geography, from Appalachia to Colorado, Mexico, Bangladesh, UAE, etc. All of which made it a more rewarding reading experience. Nearly every paragraph bristles with a knowledge of what we are doing to ourselves and our planet and to those who are yet to come and to whom this work is primarily addressed.

And famously too Vollmann is not giving you answers or telling you what to do. Mostly one could characterize his work as attempting to at least trace out how difficult the question itself is to get ahold of, never mind how tempting it is to grab an easy answer beforehand. But for those pesky folks who want to save the environment with a green curbside bucket and insist on an answer to their impatient "What is to be done?" let me speculate what Vollmann's first target would be. "No Comment". The nearly total resistance on the part of the energy industries to even participate in civil society, to be somewhat transparent, to return phone calls or interact with journalists. And the legal layer allowing near total secrecy about what they are up to. It is these private tyrannies that are killing us. So I'd say, if you want to Do Something (and not just sit there), drag these private tyrannies into the courts of accountability. ...more

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Apr 26, 2020 Geoff added it · review of another edition

The two volumes should be treated as one, but the second is a better “book” than the first. Anyway, essential reading for our failed human experiment; though it is rarely entertaining, it is often deeply humane. I adore Vollmann. We are doomed.

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Jun 20, 2018 E. G. rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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List of Maps and Illustrations

--Carbon Ideologies Volume II: No Good Alternative

Acknowledgments

(For source notes to both volumes of 'Carbon Ideologies', please see: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/carbonideologies.) ...more

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Jun 16, 2018 Jason rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

If you are attracted to and desirous of immersion in Grade A glut, then you either know or should know that William T. Vollmann is your man. His last novel, THE DYING GRASS, was over 1300 pages long and apparently he was forced to expend some effort cutting it down to that. Reading THE DYING GRASS was extremely rewarding in the way hard work often is. It was not a breezy readerly dalliance. Having now read the twin collections comprising the single work that is CARBON IDEOLOGIES (together chalki If you are attracted to and desirous of immersion in Grade A glut, then you either know or should know that William T. Vollmann is your man. His last novel, THE DYING GRASS, was over 1300 pages long and apparently he was forced to expend some effort cutting it down to that. Reading THE DYING GRASS was extremely rewarding in the way hard work often is. It was not a breezy readerly dalliance. Having now read the twin collections comprising the single work that is CARBON IDEOLOGIES (together chalking in at damn near 1300 pages), I have to say that though I would hardly call them breezy, neither do they demand (exactly) to be impugned as "hard work." THE DYING GRASS took me something close to two months to read; I read the 667 pages of NO GOOD ALTERNATIVE is eleven days. As circumstances conveniently aligned themselves for me (who only ever undertakes one book at a time, and finishes every last one, disfavour be damned) to commence w/ NO GOOD ALTERNATIVE on its release date, I have the unique pat-myself-on-the-back privilege of submitting the first Goodreads review of the backend of this remarkable bisected work. Whereas the first two-hundred-some-odd pages of NO IMMEDIATE DANGER involved much straight science and a whole heap-load of British Thermal Unit number crunching, only then to move on to Vollmann's adventures in post-Fukushima Japan w/ his dosimeter, pancake frisker, kindliness, and razor wit, NO GOOD ALTERNATIVE is almost entirely reportage and essayistic asides. While Vollmann can be biting and sarcastic, he is always a man on the ground in good faith; he is interested in people, even sometimes declaring that he likes very much people that you or I might find it very difficult to like indeed; the sarcasm and gallows humour are counterpoint to what must be a genuine streak of folksy ingenuousness. He is, of course (I should think it would be a matter of obviousness), a truly remarkable writer, somehow both conversational and hyper-literary, guided as the best folks are by a brawny curiosity. Just look at all the places he went and all the people he spoke to! (Check out that epic closing "Acknowledgements" section.) This is a man who will go considerable distance to get his story. He never seems to stop. Hence the glut. (At one point he tells us he revised the chapter we are in the process of reading on a bullet train to Tokyo.) NO GOOD ALTERNATIVE seems even more remarkable to me than the super remarkable NO IMMEDIATE DANGER. Very early, when we are traveling w/ Vollmann through West Virginia coal country, I was aware of reading something as immortal as the rhetorical conceit of CARBON IDEOLOGIES (which is addressed to readers in our "hot dark future") would seem to require it to be. I suddenly realized that the great crime of my existence is that I have not yet read James Agee's LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN (which I shall commence reading as soon as I finish this review.) Agee would have to be a touchstone for Vollmann's sublimely-written reportage. Vollmann is a giant of the same literary breed. Except more giant. Yes, alas, there is the matter of glut. Not only have I read NO GOOD ALTERNATIVE in eleven days, I have also taken the opportunity to espy and at some length consider Wen Stephenson's lightly chastising "Carbon Ironies," which curious readers can likewise go espy over at THE BAFFLER's website. Stephenson says that Vollmann is a marvelous writer who has written a pair of volumes people ought to read, but that his position as a kind of defeated fatalist means he seems not to acknowledge that democracy and good citizenship require us to take action when it may only make a minor difference (or maybe even none at all). Stephenson says it is too late for anything other than calamity to darken our horizon, but that we should be working on precipitating very bad scenarios that are slightly less bad than the worst bad scenarios. I think Vollmann would take this criticism seriously. I think he flirts with saying the same himself. A short chapter near the end entitled "What We Should Have Done," is a real tour de force and he is by no means being glib in wrestling w/ this stuff. It is true that Vollmann tends to get a lay of the land based on where he happens to be standing at any given moment. The only crusaders we meet are almost completely solitary individuals fighting Quixotic local battles. Vollmann loves these people and he praises them beautifully in accordance. The beast at the heart of the story is our demand for energy and the products only made possible by resource extraction (Vollmann again and again takes himself to task as a blasé twenty-first century consumer), but the villains are the "regulated community," the bottom-line-driven business interests w/ their loathsome politicial bedfellows, utterly affronted by any obstacle that would presume to impede their spree. Vollmann would like nothing more than to see a way out of their chokehold, and to his dismay he cannot. If Vollmann is a fatalist, it pleases him not one jot. Is he what Rebecca Solnit would call a lazy cynic? Well, man, Vollmann is about as unlazy as they come. A cynic? Maybe. But that's definitely not necessarily the same thing as being irrational. ...more

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Jun 24, 2018 Ian "Marvin" Graye marked it as to-read

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Oct 19, 2018 Chris Via rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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“There had only been one hope for us: To reduce demand” (627).

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Nov 02, 2018 Christopher Condit rated it it was amazing

"...within the time granted by the laws of physics to delay, prevent and alleviate global warming, nothing could now be done." He's absolutely convinced me that the situation is completely hopeless.

Volume 1 was largely hard science, plus witnessing in the area ruined by nuclear disaster in Japan. Volume 2 is sociology, blending at the end into philosophy. It is more readable and engaging, shows more of Vollmann's delightful personality, and engages many, many others in interviews: West Virginia ...more

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May 13, 2019 Scott Lupo rated it really liked it

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Whew! Volume II done. Well, the news doesn't get better, does it? While Volume I mostly dealt with Japan and its nuclear disaster, Volume II focuses on oil, gas, and coal. This volume is much more interviewing intensive where the reader gets first hand impressions from those working on the front line or fighting on the front line. For me, it was a shocking read that only confirmed even more that we have no way out of this mess. Reading the comments from West Virginia to Abu Dhabi to Greeley, Col ...more

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Feb 02, 2019 Alexandra rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: excellent, climate-change, climate-nonfic, lazarus-inspo, favorites-recent, policy, good-prose

A less negative carbon ideologue than I might interpret the lonely wariness of Mr. Winkler and of Sharon Carlisle as proof of wrongheaded irrelevance. Socrates was equally irrelevant once the Athenians had served him his hemlock. The insipidities of the hollowed out Greeley Tribune, the no comment of most people to whom I “reached out,” and the typical anomie of an American metropolis, whose citizens I rarely saw except in their cars, in retail establishments or at the Fourth of July parade, ope

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Aug 19, 2018 Sean rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Whew. Together with Volume 1, that is one long, depressing book about how we're killing the Earth and everyone on it. Good, though! Vollmann gets into oil and coal and natural gas in this volume. He interviews all kinds of people, from the little to the big, from pro-coal/oil/gas to anti, and no matter what anyone says, however hopeful or pessimistic, however uninformed or insightful, the takeaway becomes clearer and clearer the more one reads: we are doomed, doomed, and still more doomed. We ca ...more

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Jan 02, 2019 Steven Peck rated it it was amazing

One of the most powerful, disturbing, frightening, insightful books on the on the ground contributors to climate change I've read. A must read for those who want a dose of reality about Climate Change. ...more

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Nov 13, 2021 Mark rated it really liked it

The closer the material gets to things I know a lot about, the thinner it feels. So excellent work on coal but the fracking and oil sections could have delved a great deal deeper. Still a masterful ironic voice and excellent pursuit of direct experiences.

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Dec 30, 2020 Aaron rated it it was amazing

I hate this man for being so brutally honest; yet I’m extremely grateful for the experience. You’ve GOT to read the whole thing. I know—it’s a lot. It’s worth it. I’ve been an academic in this field and I feel like I’ve acquired an understanding that is simultaneously more nuanced yet clearer than before. He’s known for writing long works. They’re worth following.

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Sep 03, 2019 Shane Papendorf rated it it was amazing

this may be one of the bleakest and most honest books i've ever read...perfect reading for a long, hot, humid summer suffocated by rampant tourism in NYC. ...more

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Sep 20, 2018 Robert Stevenson rated it really liked it

If you are looking for book on the facts on climate change and greenhouse emissions and understanding the Carbon Ideology of our times. There is no better book.

But be warned this book is not a uppie book. Together “No Immediate Danger” and “No Good Alternative” include over 2000 pages of climate journalism covering everything from Nuclear power, including extensive details on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, coal usage around the world and West Virginia specifically, Fracking energy exploitation If you are looking for book on the facts on climate change and greenhouse emissions and understanding the Carbon Ideology of our times. There is no better book.

But be warned this book is not a uppie book. Together “No Immediate Danger” and “No Good Alternative” include over 2000 pages of climate journalism covering everything from Nuclear power, including extensive details on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, coal usage around the world and West Virginia specifically, Fracking energy exploitations in Colorado, and Oil industry futures in the Arab world, and the difficulties of embracing renewable energy.

William includes many literature quotes along the way, Goethe is a favorite, “the man who is best educated can assume to have the majority against him”. Political theory is also interwoven, as we watch Capitalism move toward rent extractions instead of innovation investment for risk management with land grabbing and dispossession of people becoming more common.

We are seeing human nature, the self-interest chase going out at all costs, up to and beyond the boundary lines drawn by law to protect us from harming each other. We see self-interest over running itself and eroding public safety, with roaring, howling people screaming irrational injustices if we look into ways to limit our climates destruction.

Many people believe success is never bad, that strength and success are above morality. What is worse nuclear catastrophes or climate catastrophes? We have pro-fracking and pro-coal propaganda that refuse to share the facts that justify their belittling the danger of each. They are passing “freedom loving” laws that make our environment less safe.

William wrote these two books as an apology to children a hundred years from now who will be suffering the result of our lack of action to address climate challenges. William foresees these children living in dark hot caves, with overly polluted landscapes and energy scarcity, a very rough group of humans who are even more under-educated then our people today, where there is no more electricity at night for reading and were sea levels have risen over 15 feet. He tries to explain how we let this happen to the world, reports all the data we have today to understand the problems, interviews hundreds of people in all industry and areas.

William explains how our choices for addressing climate change continue to be passed down to further generations until they have no choices.
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Aug 11, 2019 Elke rated it really liked it

I listened to this book and it’s companion volume on Audible. I’m glad I did. They provide a comprehensive look at why we use the sources of energy we use and why we are so lackadaisical about the effects our energy creation and usage have on our environment, global ecosystem, and the lives of those living now and those to come. Along with many numbers collected mostly from government sources — which may cause you to fall asleep in the bus, miss your stop, and be awakened by the bus driver — it ...more

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Aug 30, 2020 Robert rated it really liked it

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Not sure if this is the stronger of Volmann's 2 Carbon Ideologies books, but I found No Good Alternative an easier read than No Immediate Danger. Volmann's self flagellating & male-gazing asides were less common & less jarring; perhaps I just got used to them? Full of interesting interviews & has many tidbits of information about worldwide energy use and generation. Does a good job of showing how thoroughly the coal industry has poisoned West Virginia's water while also drawing parallels with un ...more

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Mar 26, 2021 Brandon Pytel rated it it was amazing

In his second volume of the Carbon Ideologies, Vollmann dives into three of our favorite alternatives to nuclear power: natural gas, oil, and coal. In the same witty, dark humor, Vollmann attempts to apologize for the actions of his generation by arguing that there was no good alternative to powering the life we led.

Diving deep into the communities built on these fossil fuels, he interviews dozens of people, mostly those at the frontlines as those at the top ignore his inquiries, to find out ju In his second volume of the Carbon Ideologies, Vollmann dives into three of our favorite alternatives to nuclear power: natural gas, oil, and coal. In the same witty, dark humor, Vollmann attempts to apologize for the actions of his generation by arguing that there was no good alternative to powering the life we led.

Diving deep into the communities built on these fossil fuels, he interviews dozens of people, mostly those at the frontlines as those at the top ignore his inquiries, to find out just how much of life is based on these ideologies.

We learn of the dirty, dangerous jobs of coal mining in West Virginia, and the enshrined heroism of these workers when they die (a sacrifice they make “to keep the lights on”) and the deflected blame of the corporations that cut safety corners to save money. We learn of the environmental degradation of mountaintop removal, the health effects of black lung, and the pollution of coal ash and sludge.

Vollmann travels next to Colorado to learn more about fracking. Along the way, Vollmann details the technical process of these actions, characterizing not only the human risk but also the environmental consequences, both short term and long. Similarly, traveling to Bangladesh and Abu Dhabi, Vollmann finds how corporations don’t just exploit American workers, but workers all over the world, paying them even less to do similar work. Meanwhile, everyone seems to realize climate change exists, but prefer instead to pay it no mind.

With a metaphorical shrug, Vollmann once again makes no excuses for their behavior other than that was the way it was — he himself acknowledges that he is part of the problem, with all his power use. In this way, No Good Alternative, and the larger Carbon Ideologies, is a relative breath of fresh air compared to most climate books out there.

We don’t need all climate books to be like this, but being pragmatic about our current situation — specifically the political and economic systems that have created the daily and cultural dependence on fossil fuel — is sometimes more welcomed than the formulaic climate narrative of problem, human story, solution, hope. Vollmann is more interested in uncovering how we got here, rather than figure out where we go from here.

Looking into the past, and the collateral damage of this fossil fuel economy, Vollmann indirectly makes a case for change without outright advocating it. His rhetorical style is that of a sardonic, witty historian who tries to understand how we got here by getting down into the extraction-based communities and their boom and bust economies.

What he finds is a significant separation of class between the worker and the corporations, a negligence of health and safety, both short term and long, and a wildly profit-driven environment, which does not ever stop to consider he planetary harm being done by continual extraction, refining, and burning of fossil fuels. Our self-serving behavior of waste and excess was justified by “the way it was” and a magnified view of present gains over future livelihoods. The theme endured then as such: Should a miner or two die or a generation be screwed, oh well — we kept the lights on. ...more

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Feb 04, 2022 Edward Champion rated it it was amazing

CARBON IDEOLOGIES is one of Vollmann's greatest achievements. In this second volume, he investigates coal, oil, fracking, and even batteries -- going to West Virginia, Abu Dhabi, Bangladesh, and damn near every part of the world to give voice to the many residents and workers who are victims of inept government and corporate malfeasance, what he italicizes as the "regulated community." (Vollmann often pulls this sampling effect in his nonfiction volumes of repeating a term over and over again.) ...more

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Nov 02, 2018 Heidi Thorsen rated it liked it · review of another edition

The author continues in the same tone as the first volume, but with a focus on coal, oil, and natural gas rather than nuclear power. My short summary is, “Wow, look at all the carbon we are releasing in order to move about the planet and cook our food and heat and cool our homes! And everything else in the modern world that requires electricity! Too bad no one can envision a way around the global warming catastrophe that is bound to ruin the earth at some unspecified time in the future!”

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Feb 21, 2020 Rock rated it really liked it

This is definitely a weaker book for having been cleaved in two, and like most of Vollman's fiction (but unlike most of his nonfiction), it would probably benefit from some slimming down. The coal section of the book is much longer than the other two, and feels a bit repetitive as you're reading it, though each person's view is as unique in a nuanced way as you'd expect from individuals. Which is Vollman's nonfiction strength: presenting individuals as individuals. It all adds up to a powerful, ...more

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Oct 18, 2020 Joshua Line rated it it was amazing

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"If I can be sure of any aspect of your character, it is that you are not as I. Since all I can do here is imagine you in my image, of course I have failed. I was as fossil fuels made me. They kept my lights on. Hence I who imagine myself to be open-minded will appear to you as deservedly dead, fossilized in the stratum of my own period’s prejudices." ...more

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Apr 28, 2019 P rated it it was amazing

This is more approachable than Volume One because it's less scientific and covers a wider variety of fuels and locations. The last 50 pages are devastating as Vollman tries to explain what we could have done to prevent "the hot dark future." ...more

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Mar 29, 2020 Augl rated it it was amazing

This book, along with Volume I: No immediate Danger, is an impressive and important work, which should be read/understood by every voting citizen of the US, especially as we try to decide upon which leaders to chose as we make decisions which will impact our global future.

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Jan 16, 2022 Alexander Weber rated it really liked it

Fantastic in scope, but a little boring at times. I really feel his man-on-the-street journalism is his weakest writing, and these two volumes have a lot of them. Beyond those though, this is a remarkable project.

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Sep 08, 2018 Elisabeth rated it really liked it

See my review of Volume One.

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Oct 08, 2018 Sean rated it really liked it

More reader friendly than the 1st volume but relentless in showing our shortfalls.

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Dec 29, 2018 Peter rated it it was amazing

extremely good, way better than the first installment. the structure of this book is kind of questionable as the first part is kind of trivial in comparison to what’s in this one

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Mar 06, 2020 James Aura rated it really liked it

In the end, this is more a reference book than a work of nonfiction. Lots of ground covered in remarkable detail.

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Dec 08, 2020 Danielle rated it liked it

The tone became very tiring.

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