Description 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, the vast majority of that within a single generation.
Most worrying of all, this dramatic acceleration has occurred against the backdrop of an increasingly unanimous scientific consensus: that their environmental imp.
| Century | Of all the fossil fuels ever consumed more than half were burnt up in the past fifty years alone the vast majority of that within a single generation |
|---|---|
| Most worrying of all, this dramatic acceleration has occurred against the backdrop of an increasingly unanimous scientific consensus | That their environmental imp |
Pluto Press (uk) Burning up: a global history of fossil fuel consumption, paperback/simon pirani
