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Energy security in the era of climate change: the Asia-Pacific experience

conventional fossil fuels is a very strong feature of the book. The outcome of this analysis provides the platform on which the authors rest the ultimate claim that we must shift to a post-carbon society. In particular, the ‘energy return on [energy] investment’ (EROI) analyses are very valuable and help to expose the irrationality and destructivity of non-conventional fossil fuel societies. In chapters 7 and 8, Davidson and Gismondi successfully synthesise their empirical evidence into their theory. They suggest fruitful ways to re-construct legitimacy, re-articulate citizenship in a global and ecological era, and to expose the ideology used to construct tar sands discourse. The tar sands case, they conclude, offers a glimmer of hope that ‘civil society’ may, perhaps, play a role in the ‘transition’ beyond fossil fuel addiction. Perhaps this hope is well-founded. But, I wonder, for example, where can this hope be rooted in our troubled times? Short of miraculous intervention – technological or otherwise – why have some individuals been able to distinguish healthy from unhealthy development? On what basis ultimately can we know, and choose, right from wrong energy-use or, for that matter, better from worse forms of legitimation? This study could be enriched further by pushing the analysis even deeper to examine the ways humans discover and disclose the norms and values required to shape a successful ‘transition’ to a post-carbon society. Although a costly book, this attractive volume offers multiple photos, charts and graphs to assist readers in grasping the tone and character of the legitimation discourses surrounding the tar sands.