Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

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A densely researched polemic designed to shock

A necessary, eye-opening and frequently gobsmacking book... Removing fossil fuels from the energy mix will require something akin to an amputation. The vivid sense of the scale and complexity of the world’s material and energetic flows provided by this book makes clear what a difficult, and possibly bloody, operation that will have to be

We all know the energy transition away from fossil fuels is needed to keep the climate safe. But this eye-opening book shows our understanding of past transitions is delusional. Far from moving definitively from wood to coal to oil and gas, we have continued to binge on all forms of energy. Somehow, this has to stop

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An All-Consuming History of Energy

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science and technology, previously at Imperial College London, now based in Paris at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is the author of The Happy Apocalypse and The Shock of the Anthropocene (with C. Bonneuil).

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