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It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources.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 Fressoz''s 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
This book reveals an uncomfortable truth: ''transition'' was originally itself promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a means

Product details

• Authors: Fressoz Jean-Baptiste, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 02.10.2025
• Subject: Non-fiction book
• EAN: 9781802067316
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-731-6
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 19.5 x 1.5 cm
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