No More Fossils

Name: No More Fossils
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SKU: 9781517916367
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By Dominic Boyer

Series: Forerunners: Ideas First

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No More Fossils by Dominic Boyer explores the urgent need to transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources. The book delves into the environmental and societal impacts of fossil fuel dependency, advocating for a collective shift towards renewable energy. Boyer combines insights from science and anthropology to argue for a more sustainable and equitable energy future.
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You might enjoy this book if you are intrigued by the possibilities of a post-fossil fuel world and the insights it offers on sustainable future innovations. Delving into the intersection of energy politics, ecology, and cultural change, it may appeal to those interested in the transformative power of science and nature to shape our future.

No More Fossils

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Explores ecological impasses and opportunities of our fossil-fueled civilisation.

It is more and more obvious that our fossilised civilisation 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 civilisation wholly beyond fossils still seems difficult to grasp.

In No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story of the rise of fossil civilisation 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?

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781517916367

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Minnesota Press

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 127g

Pages: 108

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Dominic Boyer Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Forerunners: Ideas First

About the Author

Dominic Boyer is an anthropologist, media maker, and environmental researcher who teaches at Rice University, where he served as founding director of Rice's Center for Environmental Studies. His recent books include Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene and Hyposubjects: On Becoming Human.