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The Energy of Slaves
Af: Andrew Nikiforuk Engelsk Paperback
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The Energy of Slaves
Af: Andrew Nikiforuk Engelsk Paperback
Ancient civilizations routinely relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. In the early 19th century, the slave trade became one of the most profitable enterprises on the planet. Economists described the system as necessary for progress. Slaveholders viewed religious critics as hostilely as oil companies now regard environmentalists. Yet the abolition movement that triumphed in the 1850s had an invisible ally: coal and oil. As the world''s most portable and versatile workers, fossil fuels replenished slavery''s ranks with combustion engines and other labor-saving tools. Since then, oil has changed the course of human life on a global scale, transforming politics, economics, science, agriculture, gender, and even our concept of happiness. But as best-selling author Andrew Nikiforuk argues in this provocative book, we still behave like slaveholders in the way we use energy, and that urgently needs to change. Cheap oil transformed the United States from a resilient republic into a global petroleum evangelical, then a sickly addict. Modern economics owes its unrealistic models to fossil fuels. On the global stage, petroleum has fueled a demographic explosion, turning 1 billion people into 7 billion in just a hundred years.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

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Ancient civilizations routinely relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. In the early 19th century, the slave trade became one of the most profitable enterprises on the planet. Economists described the system as necessary for progress. Slaveholders viewed religious critics as hostilely as oil companies now regard environmentalists. Yet the abolition movement that triumphed in the 1850s had an invisible ally: coal and oil. As the world''s most portable and versatile workers, fossil fuels replenished slavery''s ranks with combustion engines and other labor-saving tools. Since then, oil has changed the course of human life on a global scale, transforming politics, economics, science, agriculture, gender, and even our concept of happiness. But as best-selling author Andrew Nikiforuk argues in this provocative book, we still behave like slaveholders in the way we use energy, and that urgently needs to change. Cheap oil transformed the United States from a resilient republic into a global petroleum evangelical, then a sickly addict. Modern economics owes its unrealistic models to fossil fuels. On the global stage, petroleum has fueled a demographic explosion, turning 1 billion people into 7 billion in just a hundred years.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 296
ISBN-13: 9781771640107
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1771640103
Kategori: Miljøøkonomi
Udg. Dato: 15 maj 2014
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 141mm
Højde: 214mm
Oplagsdato: 15 maj 2014
Forfatter(e): Andrew Nikiforuk
Forfatter(e) Andrew Nikiforuk


Kategori Miljøøkonomi


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 296


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 141mm


Højde 214mm


Udg. Dato 15 maj 2014


Oplagsdato 15 maj 2014

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