Burning up a global history of fossil fuel consumption / Simon Pirani.
| Author/creator | Pirani, Simon, 1957- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Pluto Press, 2018. |
| Description | 1 electronic resource (xiv, 255 pages ) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Global history of fossil fuel consumption |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-248) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Terms of use | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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| Issued in other form | Ebook version : 9781786803139 |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Burning up London : Pluto Press, 2018. 9780745335629 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021758466 |
| ISBN | 9781786803122 (PDF electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9781786803139 (EPUB electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9781786803146 (Kindle electronic book) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| Standard identifier# | 99979032596 |
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