TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pirani,Simon
TI  - Burning up: a global history of fossil fuel consumption 
SN  - 9781786803122
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Northampton
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Energy consumption
KW  - History
KW  - sears
KW  - Environmental economics
KW  - Fossil fuels
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Environmental aspects
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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