Limits to Terrestrial Extraction

Robert Kirsch (Arizona State University, USA)

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Routledge
18 February 2020

Economics; Energy industries & utilities; Energy; Global warming; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Routledge Focus on Energy Studies

This volume focuses on the social, cultural, and ecological consequences of a political economy of energy.

A political economy of energy holds that an enduring hallmark of the current context is a reorganization of human society toward energy extraction and production. Limits to Terrestrial Extraction looks at the construction of society itself as an energy-harvesting “megamachine,” the ecomodernist project of the latter half of the twentieth century and its disastrous environmental record, and mining Near Earth Objects to extract extraterrestrial resources. Each chapter explores a limit to terrestrial extraction – spatially, economically, or socially – finding that business as usual cannot yield a different world. The authors eschew easy answers of natural resource management or discourses of wise use, instead offering critiques of market society and its constitutive drive to produce and waste energy. Overall, this volume establishes the existential stakes and scope of change that will be required to build a better world.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental political theory, as well as social scientists and humanities scholars who study the intersection of energy and society.

Edited by: Robert Kirsch (Arizona State University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 330g
ISBN: 9780367863364
ISBN 10: 0367863367
Series: Routledge Focus on Energy Studies
Pages: 84
Publication Date: 18 February 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Mumford and Bataille 3. Climate Change and Decarbonization 4. Star Power 5. Conclusion

Robert E. Kirsch is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Leadership and Integrative Studies at Arizona State University, USA.