Description: More and More and More by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz A radical new history of energy and humanitys insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate changeIt has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition- with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressozs devastating but unnervingly entertaining book shows what an extraordinary delusion this is. Far from the industrial era passing through a series of transformations, each new phase has in practice remained almost wholly entangled with the previous one. Indeed the very idea of transition turns out to be untrue.The author shares the same acute anxiety about the need for a green transition as the rest of us, but shows how, disastrously, our industrial history has in fact been based on symbiosis, with each major energy source feeding off the others. Using a fascinating array of examples, Fressoz describes how we have gorged on all forms of energy - with whole forests needed to prop up coal mines, coal remaining central to the creation of innumerable new products and oil still central to our lives. The world now burns more wood and coal than ever before.This book reveals an uncomfortable truth- transition was originally itself promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a means to put off any meaningful change. More and More and More forces its readers to understand the modern world in all its voracious reality, and the true nature of the challenges heading our way. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science and technology, previously at Imperial College London, now based in Paris at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is the author of The Happy Apocalypse and The Shock of the Anthropocene (with C. Bonneuil). Review [A] sprightly demolition job -- Pilita Clarke * The FT *A densely researched polemic designed to shock -- Chris Stokel-Walker * New Scientist *A necessary, eye-opening and frequently gobsmacking book... Removing fossil fuels from the energy mix will require something akin to an amputation. The vivid sense of the scale and complexity of the worlds material and energetic flows provided by this book makes clear what a difficult, and possibly bloody, operation that will have to be * The Economist *We all know the energy transition away from fossil fuels is needed to keep the climate safe. But this eye-opening book shows our understanding of past transitions is delusional. Far from moving definitively from wood to coal to oil and gas, we have continued to binge on all forms of energy. Somehow, this has to stop -- Pilita Clark * The FT (Best books of 2024: Environment, Science and Technology) *This is truly is a radically and very necessary new history of energy. A rich, unnerving, funny and utterly compelling account, it destabilises our understanding again and again. With uncanny examples, he makes the invisible obvious, and shows how the obvious was made invisible by forms of understanding in which even climate activists operate. This remarkable material and intellectual history will change our minds about one of the most important challenges humanity currently faces, indeed it gives us a new way of thinking about the profound challenge decarbonisation represents -- David Edgerton * author of The Shock of the Old and The Rise and Fall of the British Nation * Details ISBN0241718899 Author Jean-Baptiste Fressoz Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780241718896 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-10-03 Imprint Allen Lane Subtitle An All-Consuming History of Energy Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from French UK Release Date 2024-10-03 Language English ISBN-10 0241718899 NZ Release Date 2025-01-06 AU Release Date 2025-01-06 Pages 320 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Alternative 9781802067316 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161620582;
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