Samuel Avery

Author, The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL, Tar Sands and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb

There is enough carbon in the tar sand deposit in Western Canada to send the Earth’s climate into an irreversible tailspin that would make life itself questionable in the coming generations for plants, animals and people.

Samuel Avery trusts that even if the protests against the Keystone pipeline fail, the movement will win hearts and minds and ultimately prevail. As the author of The Pipeline and the Paradigm, Avery investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline. The book serves to introduce the people and explore the competing interests that power the environmental issue of the current generation.

Avery was educated at Oberlin College and the University of Kentucky.

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Pipeline Paradigm

“There is enough carbon in this tar sand deposit in Western Canada to send the Earth’s climate into an irreversible tailspin that would make life itself questionable in the coming generations for plants, animals and people,” said Sam Avery, author of The Pipeline and the Paradigm.

The Keystone XL Pipeline promises new jobs and a nearby fuel supply for America. But tar sands are dirty and carbon intensive, and construction of the pipeline contradicts scientists’ warnings to reduce emissions.