A graphic novel that confronts our habits, narratives, and
fantasies head-on to help break our petroleum dependency What if
the biggest barriers to responding to climate change are not
technological or governmental but, rather, cultural? In other
words, what if we ourselves could help to enact change through a
deeper understanding of our petroleum dependency? In a provocative
graphic format that draws widely from history, critical theory, and
popular culture, Gasoline Dreams explores and challenges the ways
fossil fuels have shaped our identities, relationships, and our
ability to imagine sustainable, equitable futures. As our rapidly
warming planet is pushed toward ecological collapse, we might often
feel helpless or paralyzed by the enormity of the challenges
confronting us. However, reflecting upon the cultural dimensions of
our predicament helps reveal the great potential for social
transformation inherent in the multiplying crises. Author and
artist Simon Orpana engages with contemporary scholarship in the
emergent field of Energy Humanities to confront the habits,
narratives, and fantasies that support our attachment to fossil
fuels. By revealing the many ways petroculture repeatedly fails to
deliver on its promises of "the good life," Gasoline Dreams calls
us to the difficult work of waking up from the fantasies that
inhibit us from working toward a global transition to renewable
energy. Written in an engaging graphic format that makes relevant
historical, cultural, and political analyses of global warming and
petrol dependency important to a wide audience, Gasoline Dreams
refutes the progress narratives that depict contemporary,
energy-intensive societies as the inevitable product of human
history. By revealing the contingencies, coercions, and compulsions
this myth disguises, the book allows us to imagine truly
progressive alternatives. Rather than casting climate change as a
problem for technological elites to solve, the book confronts the
everyday realities that reinforce our dependence on fossil fuels,
offering a space of hope and engagement from which concerned people
can work to build a more sustainable future. On the threshold of
the single greatest transformation the human species has yet faced,
Gasoline Dreams challenges us to start living, working, and
dreaming differently to become less culturally dependent on
petroleum.
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