02881cam a2200457Ii 4500 595659 595659 986680332 US-DLC 20200102115447.0 170509t20182018enka b 001 0 eng d GBB8A0419 bnb 9780745335629 (hardcover) 0745335624 (hardcover) 9780745335612 (paperback) 0745335616 (paperback) 9781786803139 9781786803122 9781786803146 (OCoLC)986680332 YDX eng rda YDX UPM OCLCF AU@ EQO YDX EAU UKMGB AU Alfaisal Main Library TP319 .P57 2018 HD9502.A2 P56 2018 Pirani, Simon, 1957- author Burning up : a global history of fossil fuel consumption / Simon Pirani ©2018 London : PlutoPress, ©2018 ©2018 255 p: illustrations ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-248) and index Introduction -- Part I: Contexts : 1. Fossil fuels before 1950 -- 2. Energy technologies -- 3. Energy in society -- 4. Fossil fuel consumption in numbers -- Part II: Chronologies : 5. The 1950s and 1960s: post-war boom -- 6. The 1970s: crises and oil price shocks -- 7. Patterns of electrification -- 8. The 1980s: recession and recovery -- 9. The 1990s: shunning the global warming challenge -- 10. The 2000s: acceleration renewed -- Part III: Reflections : -- 11. Interpretations and ideologies -- 12. Possibilities -- 13. Conclusions -- Appendices : Appendix 1. Measuring environmental impacts, energy flows and inequalities -- Appendix 2. Additional figures and tables Coal, gas and oil have powered our societies for hundreds of years. But the pace at which we use them changed dramatically in the 20th century: of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burnt up in the past 50 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 Fossil fuels History Fossil fuels Environmental aspects Fossil fuels Economic aspects Energy consumption History History. fast Print books. local 4 ebook version : 9781786803139 lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2020-01-02 0 TP319 .P57 2018 AU00000000015541 2020-01-02 00:00:00 706.00 2020-01-02 BOOKS