More and more and more : an all-consuming history of energy
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Originaltittel | [ Sans transition .] Engelsk
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| Omfang | ix, 310 sider : illustrasjoner, figurer
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| Opplysninger | "First published in French under the title "Sans transition: Une nouvelle histoire de l'énergie" by Éditions du Seuil" -- Baksiden av tittelbladet. - Introduction: A Symbiotic History of Energy -- A History of Energy by Candlelight -- 'The Age of . . .': Material Stagism and Its Problems -- Coal and Wood: A Tangled History -- The Timber Palace -- Liaisons carbone -- The Carbon Fallacy -- The Roots of Growth -- The Pétrolization of Wood -- Technocracy Inc. -- Atomic Malthusians -- The Invention of the Energy Crisis -- 'Play the technology card' -- Conclusion: The Weight of History.. - "It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's devastating but unnervingly entertaining book shows what an extraordinary delusion this is. Far from the industrial era passing through a series of transformations, each new phase has in practice remained almost wholly entangled with the previous one. Indeed the very idea of transition turns out to be untrue. The author shares the same acute anxiety about the need for a green transition as the rest of us, but shows how, disastrously, our industrial history has in fact been based on symbiosis, with each major energy source feeding off the others. Using a fascinating array of examples, Fressoz describes how we have gorged on all forms of energy - with whole forests needed to prop up coal mines, coal remaining central to the creation of innumerable new products and oil still central to our lives. The world now burns more wood and coal than ever before. This book reveals an uncomfortable truth: 'transition' was originally itself promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a means to put off any meaningful change. More and More and More forces its readers to understand the modern world in all its voracious reality, and the true nature of the challenges heading our way."
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| ISBN | 0241718899. - 9780241718896. - 9781802067316
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