The Carbon Bubble: What Happens to Us When It Bursts
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (862 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345814703 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rubin's Third Book Another Good One Doug Welch Jeff Rubin has done it again. Another great book on our fossil fuel predicament. Compared to his two earlier books this one is much more focused on the Canadian economy and his main audience is Canadians. According to Rubin, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has put. Jack said Three Stars. Although it was an informative read, there seemed to be excessive repetition in getting to his points.
JEFF RUBIN is the author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, a #1 national bestseller and the winner of the National Business Book Award. Rubin was the Chief Economist at CIBC World Markets, where he worked for over twenty years. He is a Senior Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and liv
Praise for The Carbon Bubble:NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A carefully researched and well-documented polemic." Winnipeg Free Press"Rubin's argument is sleek and fluent. The Carbon Bubble is exceedingly well timed." Edmonton Journal. Rubin is an engaging writer." Financial Post"An astute critique of big oil." Quill & Quire"Rubin is a lively writer
In tomorrow's economy, he argues, Canada won't be an energy superpower, but it has the makings of one of the world's great breadbaskets, as everything from the corn belt to viniculture heads to higher latitudes. The very climate change that will leave much of the country's carbon unburnable could at the same time make some of Canada's other resource assets more valuable: its water and its land. As the price of oil falls, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin takes us to the epicentre of the bursting global carbon bubble, and dares us to imagine a new engine for growth that does not run on oil.For a decade, the vision of Canada's future as an energy superpower has driven the country's political agenda, as well as the fast-paced development of Alberta's oil sands and the push for more pipelines like Keystone XL across the continent to bring that bitumen to market. And in the global climate that the world's carbon emissions are inexorably creating, growing food will soon be a lot more valuable than mining bitumen.. Like U.S. Anyone who objects to pipelines and tanker-train traffic, north or south of the US border, is labeled a dreamer, or worse--an environmentalist: someone who puts the health of the planet ahead of the economic survival of their neighbours. In The Carbon Bubble, Jeff Rubin compellingly shows how an economic vision t