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far from being frivolous make-believe, imagination is intensely practical. What we become conscious of, how we see it, and what we believe it meansâand everything we leave outâare keys to navigating the world, whether to manage forests for Teddy Rooseveltâs Forest Service, to understand ecological connections as conservation biologists, or to survive in a harsh new place while seeking Christian salvation. (7) Purdyâs interestsâthe âstyles of environmental imaginationâ (26) that have transformed American landscapes and the laws that have codified themâdiffer from Gordonâs, but both authors share an attention to the ideological persuasions that have dominion in their respective countries. Unsustainable Oil deserves to be read alongside other excoriations of Albertaâs great speculative game, such as Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (2008) by Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, and studies in the emergent field of petrocriticism, such as Stephanie LeMenagerâs Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (2014). Oil, with its climatic consequences, is a defining environmental concern of our age: it has found an impassioned critic in Jon Gordon. Nicholas Bradley University of Victoria Jeffrey Bilbro, Loving Godâs Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama
Western American Literature – The Western Literature Association
Published: Aug 16, 2017
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