#oilbeach — Public Fediverse posts

I just remembered there is an excerpt of "the otter chapter" available here, which is free to read, no DRM. It's in a niche publication that focuses on "the world in California and California in the world", BOOM California!

Here ya go: https://boomcalifornia.org/2023/02/07/oil-beach-how-toxic-infrastructure-threatens-life-in-the-ports-of-los-angeles-and-beyond/

#OilBeach #California #otters #LosAngeles #BoomCalifornia #LongBeach #pollution #oil

I am very excited to share that University of Chicago Press is giving away my book OIL BEACH for FREE this month (as an e-book)

Link is here: https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

#STS #Bookstodon #EnvHist #CriticalLogistics #OilBeach #FossilFuels #oil #pollution #AnimalStudies #ecology #ports #LosAngeles

friend: sends me a heartwarming video of wild sea turtles being lovingly warmed up at an aquarium in Texas after swimming in too-cold seawater

me, an asshole: you know that aquarium is funded by the oil industry, right

<checks> nodding, assholishly

#OilBeach #Texas #oil #petroleum #conservation #greenwashing

(Archive link: https://archive.ph/UXuV3 )

I didn't write as much as I could have about Terminal Island in my book #OilBeach. (I'm still following some research threads about it, would be more active were it not for fascism)

Two photos of the area discussed in the article do appear in the book tho:

1, This statue commemorating the Japanese fishing village, taken by me, 2021

In #OilBeach I tried to envision what it will mean for this geography if/when #oil departs:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

#ports #shipping #energy #LosAngeles #conservation #Biodiversity #EnvHist

Anyway, this was all stuff I knew nothing about when I crash-landed in LA for work in 2016. My utter bewilderment & attempt to orient myself eventually culminated in a book, which came out last year.

#ThinkingFromThinkingWith the geography here, #OilBeach is a peculiar natural history of the past half-century, focusing on seaport, ecology, & capital. Like this 🧵, also has a lot of pictures!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

a #CargoShip on the horizon off #LosAngeles. ETA, my pic, December 2022

#ThinkingFromThinkingWith #OilBeach #supplyChain

"The #military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future #climate wars. At the same time, the US DoD is largest single #energy consumer in the US and the world's largest institutional #GHG emitter."

(Anyone who's read the intro to #OilBeach will know that I took one of Crawford's earlier reports on this topic to heart!)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047487/the-pentagon-climate-change-and-war/

🛢️ 🏖️ 📙 I never posted #OilBeach to @bookstodon and while it's been out for over a year now, I am very proud of it and hope it will find its readers!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

#pollution #energy #otters #whales #California #militarism #oil #LosAngeles #Shipping #ports #CounterPort