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The Fossil-Fuelled Climate Crisis

Raymond Murphy

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  • 397 sidor
  • 2021
This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels. By utilizing Elizabeth Shoves social practices approach and Murphys own social closure framework, the book examines the accelerating treadmill of carbon-polluting practices. It incorporates externalities theory to investigate how the full cost of fossil fuels is paid by others rather than users, and to demonstrate that the environmental commons is a medium for conveying intergenerational monopolisation and exclusion in the Anthropocene. Murphy uncovers a pattern of opposition to change when exploiting valuable but dangerous resources. He argues that a new faith in mastering nature is emerging as a belief in just-in-time technological solutions to circumvent having to change fossil-fuelled practices. The book then moves on to assess proposed solutions, including Becks staging of risk and his hypothesis that the anticipation of global catastrophe will incite emancipation. It proposes a novel approach to enhancing foresight and avoid incubating disaster. It will appeal to readers interested in an original social science analysis of this creeping crisis and its resolution.
  • Författare: Raymond Murphy
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9783030533274
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 397
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-10-01
  • Förlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG