More and More and More - An All-Consuming History of Energy

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.<>

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Fressoz Jean-Baptiste
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2024
• EAN: 9780241718896
• ISBN: 978-0-241-71889-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; World, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, HISTORY / World, ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Science / Environmental Science, Energy technology & engineering, Energy resources, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Energy technology and engineering, Industrialisation and industrial history, science books; climate change; environmental books