No More Fossils /
Boyer, Dominic.
No More Fossils / Dominic Boyer - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2023. - 1 online resource (108 pages). - Forerunners: Ideas First Series . - Forerunners: Ideas First Series. .
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
9781517916367
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
Fellow Axel Springer Fellow Class of Spring 2020
History
No More Fossils / Dominic Boyer - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2023. - 1 online resource (108 pages). - Forerunners: Ideas First Series . - Forerunners: Ideas First Series. .
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
9781517916367
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
Fellow Axel Springer Fellow Class of Spring 2020
History