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Capitalizing A Future Unsustainable: Energy, Finance And The Fate Of Market Civilization (Video Podcast), Timothy Dimuzio
Capitalizing A Future Unsustainable: Energy, Finance And The Fate Of Market Civilization (Video Podcast), Timothy Dimuzio
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Debates on peak oil and other non-renewable energy resources that power modern industrial economies are becoming well known - if only in caricature.
The World’S Affluent Playground: Dubai’S Architecture Of Doom And The Future Of Globalized Social Reproduction, Timothy Dimuzio
The World’S Affluent Playground: Dubai’S Architecture Of Doom And The Future Of Globalized Social Reproduction, Timothy Dimuzio
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
During the two major oil price spikes in the 1970s, dollars earned from Middle Eastern oil were largely recycled through banks in the United States and Britain. Much of this money would go to finance a burgeoning arms trade and a number of highly dubious ‘development’ projects that eventually contributed to what was then called the ‘Third World debt crisis’. In the post-911 world, a renewed and dramatic spike in the price of oil encouraged similar activities and a similar crisis. There are, however, considerable differences worth exploring. One such difference is how the Emir of Dubai, with the knowledge …
Capitalizing A Future Unsustainable: Global Energy And The Fate Of Market Civilization, Timothy Dimuzio
Capitalizing A Future Unsustainable: Global Energy And The Fate Of Market Civilization, Timothy Dimuzio
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Liberal capitalist polities are being held up as the ultimate civilizational achievement precisely at a point in time when the energy intensive built environments & rampant & senseless consumerism of these societies are threatened by ecological devastation & the coming end of cheap & abundant fuel. Throughout the twentieth century this pattern of high energy consumption social reproduction was largely shaped by the global energy industry & the industries it spawned and/or allowed to flourish. Yet due to a number of foreseeable, if not entirely predictable, future obstacles & challenges, this blueprint of development seems doomed to failure. However, despite …