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049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 4 _aTP319
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050 4 _aHD9502.A2
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100 1 _aPirani, Simon,
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245 1 0 _aBurning up :
_ba global history of fossil fuel consumption /
_cSimon Pirani
260 _c©2018
264 1 _aLondon :
_bPlutoPress,
_c©2018
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a255 p:
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [212]-248) and index
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 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
520 _aCoal, 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
650 0 _aFossil fuels
_xHistory
650 0 _aFossil fuels
_xEnvironmental aspects
650 0 _aFossil fuels
_xEconomic aspects
650 0 _aEnergy consumption
_xHistory
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