The future is not what it used to be : climate change and energy scarcity / Jörg Friedrichs.

By:

Friedrichs, Jörg [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c2013.Description: xi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780262019248

Other title:

Future is not what it used to be : climate change and energy scarcity

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QC903 F91 2013

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Contents:

The Transitory nature of industrial society -- Climate change and energy scarcity -- What the climate can change -- When energy runs short -- The struggle over knowledge -- The Moral economy of inaction -- Where to go from here.

Summary: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY & PROTOCOLS. The future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that it will resemble the past. Past abundance of fuel, for example, does not imply unending abundance. Infinite growth on a finite planet is not possible. In this book, Jorg Friedrichs argues that industrial society itself is transitory, and he examines the prospects for our civilization's coming to terms with its two most imminent choke points: climate change and energy scarcity. He offers a thorough and accessible account of these two challenges as well as the linkages between them. Friedrichs contends that industrial civilization cannot outlast our ability to burn fossil fuels and that the demise of industrial society would entail cataclysmic change, including population decreases.

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Includes bibliographical references (pp.189-216) and index.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY & PROTOCOLS. The future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that it will resemble the past. Past abundance of fuel, for example, does not imply unending abundance. Infinite growth on a finite planet is not possible. In this book, Jorg Friedrichs argues that industrial society itself is transitory, and he examines the prospects for our civilization's coming to terms with its two most imminent choke points: climate change and energy scarcity. He offers a thorough and accessible account of these two challenges as well as the linkages between them. Friedrichs contends that industrial civilization cannot outlast our ability to burn fossil fuels and that the demise of industrial society would entail cataclysmic change, including population decreases.

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