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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.
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 …