Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition: Driving to Extinction

by Hans A. Baer

The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major contributor. A political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793604886
• ISBN13: 9781793604880
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"