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Pirani, Simon, 1957- author.

Title Burning up : a global history of fossil fuel consumption / Simon Pirani.

Publication Info.	London : Pluto Press, 2018.
	Š2018

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Description	1 online resource (1 electronic resource (xiv, 255 pages)
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-248) and index.
Contents	Part I: Contexts -- Fossil fuels before 1950 -- Energy technologies -- Energy in society -- Fossil fuel consumption in numbers -- Part II: Chronologies -- The 1950s and 1960s: post-war boom -- The 1970s: crises and oil price shocks -- Patterns of electrification -- The 1980s: recession and recovery -- The 1990s: shunning the global warming challenge -- The 2000s: acceleration renewed -- Part III: Reflections -- Interpretations and ideologies -- Possibilities -- Conclusions -- Appendices -- Measuring environmental impacts, energy flows and inequalities -- Additional figures and tables.
Summary	Recounts the history of fossil fuels' relentless rise since the mid-twentieth century, Dispelling explanations foregrounding individual consumption and arguments that population growth is the main problem, Pirani shows how fossil fuels are consumed through technological, social, and economic systems, and that these systems much change.
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	This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Subject	Energy consumption -- History.
	Fossil fuels -- Economic aspects.
	Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects.
	Fossil fuels -- History.
	Combustibles fossiles -- Aspect de l'environnement.
	Combustibles fossiles -- Aspect économique.
	Combustibles fossiles -- Histoire.
	Énergie -- Consommation -- Histoire.
	43.33 natural resources management. (NL-LeOCL)087967707
	Environmental economics.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
	Energy consumption
	Fossil fuels
	Fossil fuels -- Economic aspects
	Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History
	Informational works
	Informational works.
	Documents d'information.
Added Title	Global history of fossil fuel consumption
Other Form:	Print version: 9781786803139
	Print version: Burning up London : Pluto Press, 2018. 9780745335629 (DLC) 2022300549
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