Transitioning to a post-carbon society : degrowth, austerity and wellbeing / edited by Ernest Garcia, Mercedes Martinez-Iglesias and Peadar Kirby.

This book deals with one of the most pressing social and environmental issues that we face today. The transition to a post-carbon society, in which the consumption of fossil fuels falls over time, has become an inevitability due to the need to prevent catastrophic climate change, the increasing cost...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Garcia, Ernest (Editor), Martínez-Iglesias, Mercedes (Editor), Kirby, Peadar (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Series:International political economy series.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgements; Contents; Note on Contributors; Introduction; Mapping the Challenges; Post-Carbon Research Project; Outline of the Book; References; Part I: Transition; chapter 1: The Deadlock of the Thermo-Industrial Civilization: The (Impossible?) Energy Transition in the Anthropocene; Foreword: Nature and the Concept of Historical Trajectory; Technology as a European Pre-Industrial Social Fact; A Brief Socio-Anthropological Approach to the Anthropocene: A Positivist Metaphysics of Nature; The Dark Side of the Term Anthropocene. 
505 8 |a Work and Energy: The Conceptual Victory of the "Thermo-Industry" The Time of Transition: Trajectory Versus Trend; Work and Energy, Strange Conceptual Inventions; The Three Phenomenological Phases of the Thermo-Industry; The First Transition Phase: Viscous Mobility and Network Design; The Second Transition Phase: Oil and Liquid Mobility, the Implementation of Technical Macro-Systems; The Third Phase of the Energy Transition and the New Stage of the Thermo-Industrial Way: The Obsession with Immediacy and the Absolute Flow of Electricity. 
505 8 |a The Issue of Energy Cannibalism in the Transition to Electricity and the German DilemmaThe Temporality of Evolution and Technological Evolutionism; Is Another Transition Way Possible?; Conclusion: Rupture Beyond Transition; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Uncertainties, Inertia and Cognitive and Psychosocial Obstacles to a Smooth Transition; Introduction; Obstacles to Adequate Perception; Exponential Growth; The Tyranny of Small Decisions or the Isolation Paradox; The Mythification of Progress; Intentional Manipulation of Consciousness. 
505 8 |a The Physical Limits of the Planet and Their Consequences: The Need for a Systemic or Holistic VisionBetween Informed Lucidity and the Paralysis of Will; Social and Mental Inertias; Extreme Interdependencies and the Dangers of Apraxia; Mental Inertias and Cultural Dynamism: Which Will Prevail?; The Idea of Austerity as a Source of Confusion; Does Austerity Mean Living Worse?; Austerity and Ecological Footprint; The Transition to a 100% Renewable Energy Model; Reducing Transport; Is Solidarity Possible in a Context of Scarcity?; On Complexity, Sustainability and Resilience; Conclusion; Notes. 
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