Ending the fossil fuel era
Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside. A positive transition...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The MIT Press
2015
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside. A positive transition to a post-fossil fuel era cannot wait for global agreement, a swap-in of renewables, a miracle technology, a carbon market, or lifestyle change. This book shows that it is now possible to take the first step toward the post-fossil fuel era, by resisting the slow violence of extreme extraction and combustion, exiting the industry, and imagining a good life after fossil fuels |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 374 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 0262327074 9780262327084 0262327082 9780262327077 |