Energy, the Great Driver: Seven Revolutions and the Challenges of Climate Change

Energy, the Great Driver: Seven Revolutions and the Challenges of Climate Change
Gareth Wyn Jones
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h216 x 138mm - 160pg
15 Oct 2019 UK
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9781786834232
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This book describes the long-term four billion-year context of anthropogenic climate change, and seeks to explain our inability to respond positively to its challenges. It argues that the availability of energy and the consequential capacity to do work and exert power has, over this time, defined the trajectory of life on planet Earth as well as many of its physiochemical characteristics. Six major historic energy revolutions are recognised - energising of the first living cell; harvesting the Sun's energy; emergence of complex eukaryotic cells; hominid use of fire/cooking for brains not brawn; agriculture, more food and urban life; fossil fuel bonanza and the industrial revolution - and we are now in the midst of the seventh revolution, responding albeit reluctantly to anthropogenic global climate change.
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ISBN-13: 9781786834232
Published: 15 Oct 2019
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 160

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