More and More and More - An All-Consuming History

<A radical new history of energy and humanity''s insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change

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It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources.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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Fressoz Jean-Baptiste
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.10.2025
• EAN: 9781802067316
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-731-6
• Pagine: 320
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 195 mm x 15 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica; World, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / World, ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, SCIENCE / Energy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Science / Environmental Science, Energy technology & engineering, Energy resources, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Energy technology and engineering, Industrialisation and industrial history