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Fossil Capital - The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Paperback)
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Fossil Capital - The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Paperback)
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The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate
change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this
mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all
began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did
manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water
mills, to an engine fired by coal? Contrary to established views,
steam offered neither cheaper nor more abundant energy-but rather
superior control of subordinate labour. Animated by fossil fuels,
capital could concentrate production at the most profitable sites
and during the most convenient hours, as it continues to do today.
Sweeping from nineteenth-century Manchester to the emissions
explosion in China, from the original triumph of coal to the
stalled shift to renewables, this study hones in on the burning
heart of capital and demonstrates, in unprecedented depth, that
turning down the heat will mean a radical overthrow of the current
economic order.
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