Fuelling America's climatic apocalypse

Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-283

  Leduc, Timothy B ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apocalypse; Climate change; Fundamentalist Christianity; Peak oil; Republican political economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949110152     PISSN: 13635247     EISSN: 15685357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853507X230555     Document Type: Article

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