{"product_id":"more-and-more-and-more-an-allconsuming-history-of-energy-9780241718896","title":"More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eJean-Baptiste Fressoz's book challenges the notion of a transition to green energy, revealing the symbiotic relationship between energy sources and the need for a radical shift in our relationship with energy. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 03 October 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA necessary, eye-opening and frequently gobsmacking book...\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eRemoving fossil fuels from the energy mix will require something akin to an amputation.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe vivid sense of the scale and complexity of the world's material and energetic flows provided by this book makes clear what a difficult, and possibly bloody, operation that will have to be.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eIt has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eJean-Baptiste Fressoz's devastating but unnervingly entertaining book shows what an extraordinary delusion this is.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eFar from the industrial era passing through a series of transformations, each new phase has in practice remained almost wholly entangled with the previous one.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eIndeed, the very idea of transition turns out to be untrue.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe author shares the same acute anxiety about the need for a green transition as the rest of us, but shows how, disastrously, our industrial history has in fact been based on symbiosis, with each major energy source feeding off the others.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eUsing a fascinating array of examples, Fressoz describes how we have gorged on all forms of energy – with whole forests needed to prop up coal mines, coal remaining central to the creation of innumerable new products and oil still central to our lives.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe world now burns more wood and coal than ever before.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThis book reveals an uncomfortable truth: 'transition was originally itself promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a means to put off any meaningful change.'\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eMore and more and more forc.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 522g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 243 x 162 x 31 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780241718896\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean-Baptiste Fressoz","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":46819757424890,"sku":"9780241718896","price":18.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/1730488601015_book.jpg?v=1730622421","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/more-and-more-and-more-an-allconsuming-history-of-energy-9780241718896","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}