Limits to Terrestrial Extraction (Routledge Focus on Energy Studies)

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Synopsis
This volume focuses on the social, cultural, and ecological consequences of a political economy of energy. A political economy of energy holds that an enduring hallmark of the current context is a reorganization of human society toward energy extraction and production. Limits to Terrestrial Extraction looks at the construction of society itself as an energy-harvesting “megamachine,” the ecomodernist project of the latter half of the twentieth century and its disastrous environmental record, and mining Near Earth Objects to extract extraterrestrial resources. Each chapter explores a limit to terrestrial extraction – spatially, economically, or socially – finding that business as usual cannot yield a different world. The authors eschew easy answers of natural resource management or discourses of wise use, instead offering critiques of market society and its constitutive drive to produce and waste energy. Overall, this volume establishes the existential stakes and scope of change that will be required to build a better world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental political theory, as well as social scientists and humanities scholars who study the intersection of energy and society.
Copyright:
2020

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ISBN-13:
9781000053418
Related ISBNs:
9781003018483, 9780367863364, 9780367863364
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Robert E. Kirsch
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences
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Edited by:
Robert Kirsch

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