No more fossils / Dominic Boyer.

Main entry:

Boyer, Dominic, author.

Title & Author:

No more fossils / Dominic Boyer.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2023.

Description:

81 pages ; 18 cm.

Series:

Forerunners. Ideas first

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Living with fossils -- Sucro, carbo, petro, or what made this world that needs to be remade -- Fossil gerontocracy, or what sticks us where we are -- Revolutionary infrastructure, or what is to be done.

Summary:

"It is more and more obvious that our fossilized civilization 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 civilization wholly beyond fossils still seems difficult to grasp. In No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story of the rise of fossil civilization 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"-- Back cover.

ISBN:

9781517916367 paperback
1517916364 paperback

Subject:

Human ecology History.
Anthropology Environmental aspects.
Nature and civilization.
Anthropologie Aspect de l'environnement.
Nature et civilisation.

Added entries:

Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320554
Call No.: 320554
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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