The Fossil-Fuelled Climate Crisis: Foresight or Discounting Danger?

by Raymond Murphy

Book Overview

This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels. By utilizing Elizabeth Shove's social practices approach and Murphy's own social closure framework, the book examines the accelerating treadmill of carbon-polluting practices. It incorporates externalities theory to investigate how the full cost of fossil fuels is paid by others rather than users, and to demonstrate that the environmental commons is a medium for conveying intergenerational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030533271
• ISBN13: 9783030533274
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"