Pyromania

Simon Dalby

Description

We are the only species that uses fire. It has determined how we have made our home on this planet and it has propelled us to the role of the dominant species in the biosphere. But at the heart of contemporary climate change is the process of combustion. Simon Dalby explores what a life without burning things might look like, and how we might get there.

Fires make the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is heating the planet, melting the ice sheets, changing weather patterns and making wildfires worse. Our civilization is burning things, especially fossil fuels, at prodigious rates. So much so that we are now heading towards a future “Hothouse Earth” with a climate that is very different from what humans have known so far.

By focusing on fire and our partial control over one key physical force in the earth system, that of combustion, Simon Dalby is able to ask important and interesting questions about us as humans, including different ways of thinking about how we live, and how we might do so differently in the future. Simply put, there is now far too much “firepower” loose in the world and we need to think much harder about how to live together in ways that don’t require burning stuff to do so.

Introduction: A World on Fire

1. The Problem of Firepower

2. Fire History and the Making of the Modern World

3. Rethinking Firepower and Geopolitics

4. Shaping the Future: A World After Firepower

Conclusion: Join the Fire Department!

Sujets

• International Relations
• Human Geography
• Sustainable Development
• Social Science
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Calentamiento global
• Geography
• Sustainability
• Global warming
• Political geography
• Anthropocene
• Geopolitics
• General officer
• Climate change
• Development
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Agenda Publishing
• Date de parution: 23 novembre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781788216524
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Pyromanîa Fîre and Geopolîtîcs în a Clîmate-Dîsrupted World

Sîmon Dalby

© Sîmon Day 2024

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ïSBN 978-1-78821-650-0 (ardçovér) ïSBN 978-1-78821-651-7 (papéraç)

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Contents

Acknowedgemens

ïnroduçîon: a word on Iré

1 hé proém o Irépowér 2 Fîré îsory and é maîng o é modérn word 3 Réînîng Irépowér and géopoîîçs 4 Sapîng é uuré: a word atér Irépowér Conçusîon: joîn é Iré déparmén! Anropocene îmeîne Reerences Index

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Pyromanîaîs an împusé çonro dîsordér în wîç îndîvîduas répéa- édy aî o résîs împusés o déîéraéy sar Irés. Wîkîpedîa

Acknowledgements

No oo îs wrîén énîréy aoné. Susan Eîo saréd my oçus on Iré wî an învîaîon o do a éçuré o a Canadîan géograpér’s çonérénçé în 2016. My çoéagués and sudéns a é Basîîé Sçoo avé éard mé aîng aou Irépowér ovér é yéars and îndugéd my énusîasms véry paîény. hans oo o audîénçés éséwéré în Canada, é Unîéd Saés and Swédén wo avé éard my as on ésé émés and çom- ménéd uséuy on my îdéas. Sépén Pyné’s wrîîngs aou Iré, and în parîçuar îs éoquénAeon Magazînepîéçé on “hé Fîré Agé” în 2015, avé înspîréd mé o în roug muç o wa oows éré. ï wîs o an my wîé Cara Séwar or orwardîng a é médîa répors on ésé opîçs a sé rîngs o my aénîon, and or ér paîénçé în puîng up wî my wrîîng-înduçéd asén-mîndédnéss. Ovér é as éw yéars many péopé avé énçouragéd mé o ry o wrîé down my îdéas aou çomusîon, séçurîy, géopoîîçs and é uuré în paîn Engîs. ïn parîçuar ans o Mîçaé Byérs, Gérard Toa and Mîçaé Karé wo îndépéndény urgéd mé o pu Ingérs o éyoard. My ans oo o good rîénds on Mayné ïsand, înçudîng Andréw Smî, Don Eadîé, and Aén Rowéy wo avé paîény îs- énéd o mé maé é arguméns în îs oo, and o Davîd Brown wo, aé în é proçéss, suggéséd é péréç îé o summarîsé my argumén as “Pyromanîa”. Par o Capér 3 draws rom an arîçé o mîné çaéd “han You or No Drîvîng” puîséd în 2017 înhe Conversaîon. Many ans o Camîa Ersîné and Sévén Gérrard or éîr éxçé- én édîorîa guîdançé. And ans aso o somé révîéwérs o é orîgî- na oo proposa and an éarîér drat o é woé manusçrîp or many uséu suggésîons, no a o wîç, aas, ï çoud înçorporaé în é Ina voumé. And Inay, ans o a a Agénda Puîsîng wo go îs

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