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200 10$aBurning Up $ea global history of fossil fuel consumption /$fSimon Pirani
210  1$aLondon :$cPluto Press,$d2018.
215   $a1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages)
311   $a1-78680-313-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aFigures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Units of Measurement -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 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 -- Notes -- Further Reading and Bibliography -- Index.
330   $aRecounts 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.
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