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Power Politics - Carbon Energy in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
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Power Politics - Carbon Energy in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
Series: Roots of Contemporary Issues
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Growing directly out of the experiences of a team of Washington
State University historians who designed a new foundational course
for WSU's common requirements, the Roots of Contemporary Issues
series is built on the premise that students will be better at
facing current and future challenges, no matter their major or
career path, if they are capable of addressing controversial and
pressing issues in mature, reasoned ways using evidence, critical
thinking, and clear written and oral communication skills. To help
students achieve these goals, each title in the Roots of
Contemporary Issues series argues that today's problems are not
simply the outcomes of yesterday's decisions: they are shaped by
years, decades, and centuries of historical developments. Solving
the central problems facing our world requires a deep historical
understanding of the ways in which humans have been interconnected
with faraway places for centuries. Power Politics is centered
around the premise that in order to generate real solutions to the
problem of climate change, we must first understand how our
relationship to the carbon-based fuels that drive global warming
has unfolded over time. By tracing the historical relationship
between carbon energy and political ideas, institutions,
motivations, and actions, Power Politics places readers in a better
position to understand the entrenched nature of climate change
denialism, capitalists' self-proclaimed ability to correct the
problem, and the appeal of politically radical solutions to global
warming. The book is organized into five chapters that move forward
in time and offer selected case studies that illustrate how the
pursuit of carbon energy and politics intersect and shape each
other over time. The chapters track five key periods in the
political history of carbon energy: the pre-industrial, the
industrial revolution, the ages of empire and mass democracy, the
Cold War and decolonization, and the late- and post- Cold War.
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