Carbon Societies: The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels

by Peter Wagner

Book Overview

The climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change, we have to understand how we arrived at where we are. This book explores the reasons why human societies have embarked on the trajectory of ever-increasing use of fossil fuels.

Population growth, desire for freedom from want and profit-seeking all played major roles in shaping human history, but there has been no inevitable drive towards...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509557091
• ISBN13: 9781509557097
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 288 Pages