Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future

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Life beyond the brief anomaly

Samuel Alexander and Joshua Floyd

Carbon civilisation is powered predominately by finite fossil fuels and with each passing day it becomes harder to increase or even maintain current supply. Our one-off fossil energy inheritance is but a brief anomaly in the evolution of the human story, a momentary energy spike from the perspective of deep time.

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Today humanity faces the dual crises of fossil fuel depletion and climate change.

Both of which are consequences of the modern world’s fundamental reliance on the energy abundance provided by fossil energy sources. Can renewable energy replace the fossil energy foundations of carbon civilisation? This book examines these issues and presents a narrative linking energy and society that maintains we should be preparing for renewable futures neither of energy abundance nor scarcity, but rather energy sufficiency. For industrial societies, this means navigating energy descent futures.

Published 2017
Simplicity Institute
Paperback, 135 pages.

ISBN: 9780994282804


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Weight.2 kg
Dimensions215 × 140 × 7 mm
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