Burning up : a global history of fossil fuel consumption / Simon Pirani.
Pirani, Simon, 1957- author.
2018
HD9502.A2 P56 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Burning up : a global history of fossil fuel consumption / Simon Pirani.
Author
Pirani, Simon, 1957- author.
ISBN
9780745335629 (hardcover)
0745335624 (hardcover)
9780745335612 (paperback)
0745335616 (paperback)
9781786803122 (electronic book)
9781786803139 (electronic book)
Published
London : Pluto Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number
HD9502.A2 P56 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.8209
333.8/2113
Summary
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. --From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-248) and index.
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Part one : Contexts
Fossil fuels before 1950
Energy technologies
Energy in society
Fossil fuel consumption in numbers


Part two : 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 three : Reflections
Interpretations and ideologies
Possibilities
Conclusions


Appendices.
Measuring environmental impacts, energy flows and inequalities
Additional figures and tables.

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