No More Fossils / Dominic Boyer
Material type: TextSeries: Forerunners: Ideas First SeriesPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2023.Description: 1 online resource (108 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9781517916367
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | F (Affiliated) | F:TP318 .B69 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Paperback | 2024-0025 | ||
online resource | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin Open Access Resource | Open Access Collection | D:TP318 .B69 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | E-book (Open Access) | 2024-0026 |
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
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