Description: Burning Up : A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption, Hardcover by Pirani, Simon, ISBN 0745335624, ISBN-13 9780745335629, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Coal, gas, and oil have powered our societies for hundreds of years. But the pace at which we use them changed dramatically in the twentieth century: of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burnt up in the past fifty years alone, the vast majority of that within a single generation. Most worrying of all, this dramatic acceleration has occurred against the backdrop of an increasingly unanimous scientific consensus: that their environmental impact is devastating and potentially irreversible. In Burning Up, Simon Pirani recounts the history of the relentless rise of fossil fuels in the past half century, and lays out the ways in which the expansion of the global capitalist economy has driven it forward. Dispelling common explanations that foreground Western consumerism, as well as arguments about unsustainable population growth, Pirani offers instead an insightful intervention in what is arguably the crisis of our time.
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Book Title: Burning Up : A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption
Author: Pirani, Simon
Language: english
