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Author

Boyer, Dominic.

Title No More Fossils / Dominic Boyer

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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2023.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (108 pages).
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Series	Forerunners: Ideas First Series
	Forerunners: Ideas First Series.
Summary	Explores ecological impasses and opportunities of our fossil-fueled civilization/strong /p pIt is more and more obvious that our fossilized civilization has no sustainable future. It is an ecological Ponzi scheme stealing away the lives of countless species and the wellbeing of future generations in exchange for contemporary conveniences and the luxuries of a small subset of the human population. Yet a civilization wholly beyond fossils still seems difficult to grasp. /p pIn emNo More Fossils, /em Dominic Boyer tells the story of the rise of fossil civilization through successive phases of sucropolitics (plantation sugar), carbopolitics (industrial coal), and petropolitics (oily automobility and plasticity), showing what tethers us to the ecocidal trajectory of petroculture today and what it will take to overcome the forces that mire us in place. He also looks ahead toward the world that the rapid electrification of vehicles, buildings, and power is creating. What can we do to make electroculture more just and sustainable than the petroculture we are leaving behind?/p
Subject	Human ecology -- History.
	Anthropology -- Environmental aspects.
	Nature and civilization.
	Anthropologie -- Aspect de l'environnement.
	Nature et civilisation.
	Anthropology -- Environmental aspects
	Human ecology
	Nature and civilization
Genre/Form	History
Other Form:	Print version: Boyer, Dominic. No More Fossils. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, Š2023
ISBN	9781452971292 (electronic bk.)
	1452971293 (electronic bk.)
	1517916364
	9781517916367