Energy, the Great Driver - Seven Revolutions and the Challenges of Climate Change (Paperback)

This book describes the long-term four billion-year context of anthropogenic climate change, and seeks to explain our inability to respond positively to its challenges. It argues that the availability of energy and the consequential capacity to do work and exert power has, over this time, defined the trajectory of life on planet Earth as well as many of its physiochemical characteristics. Six major historic energy revolutions are recognised - energising of the first living cell; harvesting the Sun's energy; emergence of complex eukaryotic cells; hominid use of fire/cooking for brains not brawn; agriculture, more food and urban life; fossil fuel bonanza and the industrial revolution - and we are now in the midst of the seventh revolution, responding albeit reluctantly to anthropogenic global climate change.

General

Imprint:	University Of Wales Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Gareth Wyn Jones
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-1-78683-423-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-78683-423-5
Barcode:	9781786834232

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