Fueling Mexico - Energy and Environment, 1850-1950 (Hardcover)

Around the 1830s, parts of Mexico began industrializing using water and wood. By the 1880s, this model faced a growing energy and ecological bottleneck. By the 1950s, fossil fuels powered most of Mexico's economy and society. Looking to the north and across the Atlantic, late nineteenth-century officials and elites concluded that fossil fuels would solve Mexico's energy problem and Mexican industry began introducing coal. But limited domestic deposits and high costs meant that coal never became king in Mexico. Oil instead became the favored fuel for manufacture, transport, and electricity generation. This shift, however, created a paradox of perennial scarcity amidst energy abundance: every new influx of fossil energy led to increased demand. German Vergara shows how the decision to power the country's economy with fossil fuels locked Mexico in a cycle of endless, fossil-fueled growth - with serious environmental and social consequences.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Environment and History
Release date:	June 2021
Authors:	German Vergara
Dimensions:	235 x 157 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-83127-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history
LSN:	1-108-83127-3
Barcode:	9781108831277

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