Future Is Not What It Used to Be Climate Change and Energy Scarcity

Name: Future Is Not What It Used to Be Climate Change and Energy Scarcity
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ISBN: 9780262019248

ISBN-10: 0262019248

ISBN-13: 9780262019248

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jï¿½rg Friedrichs

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The future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comfortingassumption that it will resemble the past. Past abundance of fuel, for example, does not implyunending abundance. Infinite growth on a finite planet is not possible. In thisbook, Jörg Friedrichs argues that industrial society itself is transitory, and he examines theprospects for our civilization's coming to terms with its two most imminent choke points: climatechange and energy scarcity. He offers a thorough and accessible account of these two challenges aswell as the linkages between them.Friedrichs contends that industrialcivilization cannot outlast our ability to burn fossil fuels and that the demise of…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/16/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



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


Notes


References


Index