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Happy Apocalypse
How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the Industrial Revolution Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact humanity has on the environment. Hence there is a fashion for green confessions and mea culpas. But the notion of a contemporary ecological awakening leads to political impasse. It erases a long history of environmental destruction. Furthermore, by focusing on our present virtues, it overlooks the struggles from which our perspective arose. In response, Happy Apocalypse plunges us into the heart of co...
The Shock of the Anthropocene
The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent "environmental awareness," about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch
Chaos in the Heavens
"If you want to understand the long path to the climate crisis, read this book." –Deborah Coen, Professor of History and the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University Politicians and scientists have debated climate change for centuries in times of rapid change Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries. The subject was raised wherever history accelerated: by the Conquistadors in the New World, by the French revolutionaries of 1789, by the scientists and politicians of the nineteenth ...
More and More and More
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s devastating but unnervingly entertaining book shows what an extraordinary delusion this is. Far from the industrial era passing through a series of transformations, each new phase has in practice remained almost wholly entangled with the previous one. Indeed the very idea of transition turns out to be untrue. The author shares the same acute anxiety about the need for a green transition as the rest of us, but shows how, disastrously, our industrial history has in f...
L'Evénement Anthropocène
Les scientifiques nous l’annoncent, la Terre est entrée dans une nouvelle époque : l’Anthropocène. Ce qui nous arrive n’est pas une crise environnementale, c’est une révolution géologique d’origine humaine.Depuis la révolution thermo-industrielle, notre planète a basculé vers un état inédit. Les traces de notre âge urbain, consumériste, chimique et nucléaire resteront des milliers voire des millions d’années dans les archives géologiques de la planète et soumettront les sociétés humaines à des difficultés considérables. Comment en sommes-nous arrivés là ?Faisant dialoguer science et histoire, les auteurs dressent l’inventaire écologique d’un modèle de...
Les Révoltes du ciel
De l’aube de l’époque moderne au milieu du XXe siècle, les sociétés occidentales ont débattu du changement climatique, de ses causes et de ses effets sur les équilibres écologiques, sociaux, politiques. On ne se préoccupait alors ni de CO2 ni d’effet de serre. On pensait par contre que couper les forêts et transformer la planète modifieraient les pluies, les températures, les saisons. Cette question fut posée partout où l’histoire avançait à grands pas : par les Conquistadors au Nouveau Monde, par les révolutionnaires de 1789, par les savants et les tribuns politiques du XIXe siècle, par les impérialistes européens en Asie et en Afrique jusqu’à la Seconde Guerre...
History of the Future of Economic Growth
The future of economic growth is one of the decisive questions of the twenty-first century. Alarmed by declining growth rates in industrialized countries, climate change, and rising socio-economic inequalities, among other challenges, more and more people demand to look for alternatives beyond growth. However, so far these current debates about sustainability, post-growth or degrowth lack a thorough historical perspective. This edited volume brings together original contributions on different aspects of the history of economic growth as a central and near-ubiquitous tenet of developmental strategies. The book addresses the origins and evolution of the growth paradigm from the seventeenth cen...
The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis
The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question. The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival of the Anthropocene and opens up the social sciences and humanities to the profound meaning of the new geological epoch, the ‘Age of Humans’. Drawing on the expertise of world-recognised scholars and thought-provoking intellectuals, the book explores the challenges and difficult questions posed ...
Sans transition
Voici une histoire radicalement nouvelle de l’énergie qui montre l’étrangeté fondamentale de la notion de transition. Elle explique comment matières et énergies sont reliées entre elles, croissent ensemble, s’accumulent et s’empilent les unes sur les autres. Pourquoi la notion de transition énergétique s’est-elle alors imposée ? Comment ce futur sans passé est-il devenu, à partir des années 1970, celui des gouvernements, des entreprises et des experts, bref, le futur des gens raisonnables ? L’enjeu est fondamental car les liens entre énergies expliquent à la fois leur permanence sur le très long terme, ainsi que les obstacles titanesques qui se dressent sur le chemin de la décarbonation. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz est un historien des sciences, des techniques et de l’environnement. Après avoir été maître de conférence à l’Imperial College de Londres, il est maintenant chercheur au CNRS, enseignant à l’EHESS et à l’École des ponts et chaussées. Il a déjà publié au Seuil L’Apocalypse joyeuse, Les Révoltes du ciel (avec Fabien Locher), et L’Événement anthropocène (avec Christophe Bonneuil).
Climate Leviathan
**Winner of the 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize** -- How climate change will affect our political theory - for better and worse Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and economic outcomes of this? Where is the overheating world heading? To further the struggle for climate justice, we need to have some idea how the existing global order is likely to adjust to a rapidly changing environment. Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about the intensifying challenges to the global order. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform the world's political economy and the fundamental political arrangements most people take for granted. The result will be a capitalist planetary sovereignty, a terrifying eventuality that makes the construction of viable, radical alternatives truly imperative.
