Tag Archive for: fossil fuels

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Climate of Contempt | David B. Spence

 

In his wide-ranging analysis, Spence explores the effects of polarization, partisanship, and propaganda on United States energy policy and considers how to build a broader climate coalition. He contends that cooperation on this crucial issue is still possible, but it will require sustained person-to-person engagement across ideological and partisan boundaries to foster a more productive dialogue. Providing a timely and incisive understanding of the politics of the energy transition, Climate of Contempt suggests new paths forward and offers hope for a net-zero future.

More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

 

This thought-provoking book was published at the end of last year. It explores the challenge of the transition from fossil fuel and questions the notion of transition as it has been understood in the past. It warns of an uncomfortable truth in the modern conception, that ‘transition’ was originally promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a means to put off any meaningful change. Described as “eye-opening and frequently gobsmacking” by the Economist, this book gives a radical new history of energy.

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Juice | Tim Winton

 

The acclaimed Australian novelist Tim Winton returns to his abiding theme of the outback with a hard-hitting novel set in a far future of grimly plausible climate devastation and precarity. In a world where the descendants of fossil fuel barons hoard their resources and shoot to kill, the novel’s protagonist has spent years in the shadowy “Service”, whose mission is their annihilation. But when he and the child he has pledged to protect encounter a guard with a crossbow, he must tell the story of his life to stay alive. A gripping, heart-stopping story of sacrifice, betrayal and redemption by a master of the cli-fi genre.