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Carbon Societies

The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
320 Seiten
Englisch
Polity Presserschienen am14.06.2024
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 heating up the atmosphere in the pursuit of social objectives. To sustain a growing population, more natural resources are required, but their use does not need to generate climate change. No logic of modernity links freedom with a kind of material abundance that requires the burning of fossil fuels. No logic of capital necessarily ties the search for profit to the extraction of fossil resources.Examining the critical junctures in human history when resource regimes changed, this book identifies the social problems that were meant to be solved by burning fossil fuels and the power hierarchies that shaped the decisions to use them. Wagner argues that the key choices that led to the climate emergency were made relatively recently, during the second half of the 20th century: they are close enough in time for us to undo the prevailing social logic of fossil fuels.  By redefining the key problems that humankind is facing and reshaping the existing mechanisms of power, we can take the decisive action needed to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and avert the worst consequences of climate change.mehr
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KlappentextThe 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 heating up the atmosphere in the pursuit of social objectives. To sustain a growing population, more natural resources are required, but their use does not need to generate climate change. No logic of modernity links freedom with a kind of material abundance that requires the burning of fossil fuels. No logic of capital necessarily ties the search for profit to the extraction of fossil resources.Examining the critical junctures in human history when resource regimes changed, this book identifies the social problems that were meant to be solved by burning fossil fuels and the power hierarchies that shaped the decisions to use them. Wagner argues that the key choices that led to the climate emergency were made relatively recently, during the second half of the 20th century: they are close enough in time for us to undo the prevailing social logic of fossil fuels.  By redefining the key problems that humankind is facing and reshaping the existing mechanisms of power, we can take the decisive action needed to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and avert the worst consequences of climate change.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-5095-5709-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum14.06.2024
Seiten320 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 155 mm, Höhe 222 mm, Dicke 27 mm
Gewicht475 g
Artikel-Nr.61304024

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I - Setting the agenda: biophysical resources and societal self-understandingsChapter 1: Climate change, modernity, and capitalismPart II - An alternative historical sociology of modernity and capitalismChapter 2: Logics of historyChapter 3: The advanced organic economy of ""early modernity""Chapter 4: Vertical frontiers and the Great DivergenceChapter 5: Fordism and the path towards the Great AccelerationPart III - The social logic of fossil fuels: climate change and the politics of the Great AccelerationChapter 6: Capitalism, socialism, and democracy: the politics of material well-beingChapter 7: Why fossil fuels? Alternatives of ""development""Chapter 8: Enabling and constraining knowledge: frontiers, limits, boundariesChapter 9: Problem displacement: the social logic of fossil fuelsPart IV - The future social logic of fossil fuelsChapter 10: Other endings: reviewing the logics of expansionChapter 11: What is to be done?mehr

Autor

Peter Wagner is Research Professor of Social Sciences at the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and at the University of Barcelona as well as Research Lead in the Programme "Modernity in Central Asia: Identity, Society, Environment" at the University of Central Asia. His recent book publications include Progress: A Reconstruction and Modernity.