Sparking a worldwide energy revolution : social struggles in the transition to a post-petrol world

Summary: "There are no technofixes. Neither 'clean' energy nor 'green' capitalism will preserve our lands, rivers, oceans, health, and lives. Neither governments nor corporations nor 'the market' can bring us out of the netherworld they themselves have created. Mother Earth calls to the grass-roots for entirely new social relations, human and less hellish. This sober and serious book heeds that call."ùPeter Linebaugh, author of The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All --

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ISBN: 9781849350051 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1849350051 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
668 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Oakland, CA ; Edinburgh : AK Press, 2010.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Part 1: Energy makes the world go round and work makes the energy sector go round -- Part 2: Oil: the world's foremost energy sector in terminal crisis? -- Part 3: Some regional perspectives on energy -- Part 4: Community and worker struggles over ownership and control in the fossil fuel sector and their role in a transition to a post-petrol world -- Part 5: Leading the way: a sample of emerging "best practices" -- Part 6: Technofixes -- Part 7: Moving fast to stay still: rebooting coal, oil, and nuclear -- Part 8: Resurrection of the nuclear industry, its connection with global militarism and limited uranium supplies -- Part 9: Whither coal: expanded production, leaving it in the ground, or simply running out? -- Part 10: Agrofuels as the geopolitical handmaiden of the petrol industry: a tale of enclosure, violence and resistance -- Part 11: Emerging social conflicts in the renewable energy sector: the example of wind -- Part 12: Time to speed up! renewable energy as a possible way out of the world economic crisis? -- Part 13: Towards a transition based on decentralization, common ownership, dignified work, and community autonomy -- Part 14: Alliances and conflicts along the road to an anti-capitalist energy revolution.