Andreas Malm

Fossil Capital

The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How capitalism became caught up in the carbon-burning trap

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books / Verso UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 4801
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781784781293
• ISBN-10: 1784781290
• Artikelnr.: 42232701

Autorenporträt

Andreas Malm teaches human ecology at Lund University, Sweden. His work has appeared in journals such as Environmental History, Historical Materialism , Antipode and Organization & Environment. He is the author, with Shora Esmailian, of Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War, and of half a dozen books in Swedish on political economy, the Middle East and climate change.

Rezensionen

Malm forcefully unmasks the assumption that economic growth has inevitably brought us to the brink of a hothouse Earth. Rather, as he shows in a subtle and surprising reinterpretation of the Industrial Revolution, it has been the logic of capital (especially the need to valorize immense sunk investments in fossil fuels), not technology or even industrialism per se, that has driven global warming. Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and Ecology of Fear