The Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis

How organized resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure became a political force, and how this might affect the transition to renewable energy.

Organized resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure, particularly conflicts over pipelines, has become a formidable political force in North America. In this book, George Hoberg examines whether such place-based environmental movements are effective ways of promoting climate action, if they might inadvertently feed resistance to the development...