Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption by Simon Pirani

Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption

Simon Pirani

272 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction politics science informative slow-paced
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Coal, gas, and oil have powered our societies for hundreds of years. But the pace at which we use them changed dramatically in the twentieth century: of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burnt up in the past fifty years alone...

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