Book ID: CBB856832723

Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment (2022)

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David Bond (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 262
Language: English

So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies is a bold reappraisal of the outsized role fossil fuels have played in making the environment visible, factual, and politically operable in North America. Following stories of hydrocarbon harm that lay the groundwork for environmental science and policy, this book brings into clear focus the dialectic between the negative ecologies of fossil fuels and the ongoing discovery of the environment. Exploring iconic sites of the oil economy, ranging from leaky Caribbean refineries to deepwater oil spills, from the petrochemical fallout of plastics manufacturing to the extractive frontiers of Canada, Negative Ecologies documents the upheavals, injuries, and disasters that have long accompanied fossil fuels and the manner in which our solutions have often been less about confronting the cause than managing the effects. This history of our present promises to re-situate scholarly understandings of fossil fuels and renovate environmental critique today. David Bond challenges us to consider what forms of critical engagement may now be needed to both confront the deleterious properties of fossil fuels and envision ways of living beyond them.

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Authors & Contributors
Shulman, Peter Adam
Tom Philpott
Alvise Fiume
Camp, Michael
Larkin A. Powell
Rob B. Mitchell
Concepts
Environmental history
Environmental policy
Technology and environment, relationship
Fossil fuels
Energy resources and technologies
Fuels and fuel technology
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Early modern
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Italy
India
South Carolina (U.S.)
Russia
North America
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