Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Why do we accept pollution in the name of progress? Why has the pursuit of modernity permitted increasing exposure to environmental catastrophe? In Happy Apocalypse, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz—co-author of the highly successful The Shock of the Anthropocene—shows how debates on risk and profit in the Industrial Revolution set the foundations of our own precarious times. This book plunges us into the...

A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will alter how we discuss climate change. It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition — with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's...

A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change. It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition—with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's...