TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pirani, Simon
AB  - Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism's main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel consumption has grown fastest in the last three decades, since scientists confirmed that it is the main cause of potentially devastating global warming.   In Burning Up, Simon Pirani recounts the history of fossil fuels' relentless rise since the mid twentieth century. Dispelling explanations foregrounding Western consumerism, 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 must change.   This is a major contribution to understanding the greatest crisis of our time.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004144
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100490577
KW  - Political Science
KW  - History
KW  - Environment
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Fossil Fuels
KW  - Green Economics
KW  - Coal
KW  - Gas
KW  - Oil
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Climate Change
KW  - Consumerism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b174f93e-bcb5-48fd-84ec-6132dd620e39/1004144.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25937
PB  - Pluto Press
PY  - 2018-10-20
SN  - 9781786803122;9781786803139
TI  - Burning Up : A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption
ER  - 
