Energy and the Anthropocene: security challenges and solutions
| Autor: | Clifford Shearing, Jan Froestad |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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060101 anthropology
Natural resource economics business.industry Energy (esotericism) 05 social sciences Fossil fuel General Social Sciences 06 humanities and the arts Energy security Social stratification 0506 political science Pathology and Forensic Medicine Economy Anthropocene 050602 political science & public administration Ecological security 0601 history and archaeology business Domestication Law |
| Zdroj: | Crime, Law and Social Change. 68:515-528 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0751 0925-4994 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10611-017-9700-8 |
| Popis: | This paper explores the role that energy regimes, and the search for energy security, has had in shaping humans and their societies, and the effects thereof. Energy enrolments through the domestication of plants and animals and the extraction and burning of increasingly energy- rich fuels enabled humans to build ever more productive and formidable societies, but also more complex and divided ones. Social stratification, combined with the new risks caused by the more intense interactions and entanglements that emerged between humans and nature, has culminated in the global environmental crises that humans are now facing. We conclude by arguing that an escape route from the destructive consequences that fossil fuel energy regimes have had for humans and their ecological security is provided by the emergence of electrical civilizations and the potential this provides for integrating energy and ecological securities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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