Burning up : a global history of fossil fuel consumption / Simon Pirani.

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 sy...

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Main Author: Pirani, Simon, 1957- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2018.
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505 0 0 |g Part I:  |t Contexts --  |t Fossil fuels before 1950 --  |t Energy technologies --  |t Energy in society --  |t Fossil fuel consumption in numbers --  |g Part II:  |t Chronologies --  |t The 1950s and 1960s: post-war boom --  |t The 1970s: crises and oil price shocks --  |t Patterns of electrification --  |t The 1980s: recession and recovery --  |t The 1990s: shunning the global warming challenge --  |t The 2000s: acceleration renewed --  |g Part III:  |t Reflections --  |t Interpretations and ideologies --  |t Possibilities --  |t Conclusions --  |g Appendices --  |t Measuring environmental impacts, energy flows and inequalities --  |t Additional figures and tables. 
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