BURNING UP: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF FOSSIL FUEL CONSUMPTION

Book ID/图书代码： 10953018C00004

English Summary/英文概要： Coal, gas, and oil have powered our societies for hundreds of years. But the pace at which we use them changed dramatically in the twentieth century: of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burnt up in the past fifty years alone, the vast majority of that within a single generation. Most worrying of all, this dramatic acceleration has occurred against the backdrop of an increasingly unanimous scientific consensus: that their environmental impact is devastating and potentially irreversible.

In Burning Up, Simon Pirani recounts the history of the relentless rise of fossil fuels in the past half century, and lays out the ways in which the expansion of the global capitalist economy has driven it forward. Dispelling common explanations that foreground Western consumerism, as well as arguments about unsustainable population growth, Pirani offers instead an insightful intervention in what is arguably the crisis of our time.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在《燃尽》一书中，Simon Pirani叙述了过去半个世纪化石燃料不断上升的历史, 并阐述了全球资本主义经济的扩张推动其发展的途径。Pirani消除了人们对西方消费主义前景的共同解释，以及关于不可持续的人口增长的争论, Pirani提供了一个有洞察力的干预, 可以说是我们时代的危机。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：’After the Paris Agreement, the focus is on what to do now. This book explains the technological, social and economic processes that have prioritised a particular way of satisfying society’s demand for energy services... strong vested interests and path dependencies need to be overcome to deliver a transition to a low carbon future’ -- Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, UK, author of Global Energy Dilemmas (2013) ’Burning fossil fuels created our modern world. Burning fossil fuels now threatens to destroy it. Simon Pirani’s meticulous depiction of how fossil fuels are woven into our human systems - not only technological but also economic, social and political - is an invaluable aid to getting them back under control’ -- Walt Patterson, campaigner, fellow of Chatham House, author of Keeping The Lights On (2007) and Electricity vs Fire (2015)

About the Author/作者介绍： Simon Pirani is a journalist and senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

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