Burning up : a global history of fossil fuel consumption / Simon Pirani.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (xiv, 255 pages)Content type:- text
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- Global history of fossil fuel consumption
- Energy consumption -- History
- Fossil fuels -- Economic aspects
- Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects
- Fossil fuels -- History
- Combustibles fossiles -- Aspect de l'environnement
- Combustibles fossiles -- Aspect économique
- Combustibles fossiles -- Histoire
- 43.33 natural resources management
- Environmental economics
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General
- Energy consumption
- Fossil fuels
- Fossil fuels -- Economic aspects
- Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-248) and index.
Part I: Contexts -- Fossil fuels before 1950 -- Energy technologies -- Energy in society -- Fossil fuel consumption in numbers -- Part II: Chronologies -- The 1950s and 1960s: post-war boom -- The 1970s: crises and oil price shocks -- Patterns of electrification -- The 1980s: recession and recovery -- The 1990s: shunning the global warming challenge -- The 2000s: acceleration renewed -- Part III: Reflections -- Interpretations and ideologies -- Possibilities -- Conclusions -- Appendices -- Measuring environmental impacts, energy flows and inequalities -- Additional figures and tables.
Recounts the history of fossil fuels' relentless rise since the mid-twentieth century, Dispelling explanations foregrounding individual consumption and arguments that population growth is the main problem, Pirani shows how fossil fuels are consumed through technological, social, and economic systems, and that these systems much change.
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