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Vart tog Konsum vägen? Det medlemsägda företaget som närde, klädde, möblerade och uppfostrade folkhemsgenerationerna. Ett gigantiskt industrikonglomerat. En av välfärdsstatens …
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: …
By the end of the 1970s, the idea of the energy transition was becoming commonplace, a discursive umbrella encompassing all possible futures. Promoters of decoupling, of the stationary state, of fast-breeder reactors, of coal or solar power, environmentalists and neo-Malthusians: everyone could find their place in the highly inclusive lexicon of transition
— More and more and more by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Page 167)
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: …
The journal Science peddled this argument: environmentalists were responsible for the energy crisis, but they would also be its first victims, because ‘when the air conditioning and televisions stop, the public will say “to hell with the environment, give me abundance”’.6 Talk of the energy crisis was part of the ‘ecological backlash’ that the New York Times noted since the day after the first Earth Day in 1970
— More and more and more by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Page 161)
A history of 'abundance' being thwarted evil environmentalists would also be interesting
A history of 'abundance' being thwarted evil environmentalists would also be interesting
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: …
The nuclear breeder reactor also played a central role in the energy futurologies of the 1970s. Because it could increase the planet’s carrying capacity, the breeder reactor represented the essential way out of the Malthusian trap. An abundance of energy would make it possible to desalinate ocean water, manufacture nitrogen fertilizers and transform vast arid expanses into farmland; it would also make it possible to extract and refine minerals, recycle metals ad infinitum and protect the environment.
— More and more and more by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Page 151)
The concept of energy transition originates in nuclear energy advocacy and particularly neo-Malthusian fears of fossil fuel exhaustion. Breeder reactors were part of an imaginary not too dissimilar from how some regard renewables, as unlimited energy.
From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political …
The notion that the civil rights movement in the southern United States was a nonviolent movement remains a dominant theme …
When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good …
"How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative. Recent years have seen an explosion of …
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: …
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, industrial plantations of eucalyptus and pine produce a third of the wood harvested in the world from barely 3 per cent of the forested area.The irony lies in the fact that industrial forestry upholds the concept of wood as a renewable resource, yet it increasingly relies on non-renewable agricultural practices and materials, such as oil, natural gas and phosphorus
— More and more and more by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Page 122)
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: …
In recent decades, thanks to digitalization, global consumption of printing paper eventually declined, but the demand for cardboard packaging skyrocketed, partially due to the rise of the internet. With over 200 million tonnes, packaging accounts for half of the world’s paper and cardboard production and consumes approximately 8 per cent of the world’s harvested wood.
— More and more and more by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Page 114)
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: …
In April 1936, a notable international conference on wood took place in London. Among the twenty-two delegations, the German contingent caused quite a stir. They arrived in cars fuelled by wood gas, donned suits made of artificial wool derived from wood, and even distributed wooden sweets to their colleagues. The underlying message was clear: Germany was on the verge of ushering in a new ‘Wood Age’, a time of abundant resources based on the most readily available material on Earth. While the ‘age of oil’ cemented Anglo-American dominance, Germany sought to challenge this hegemony by promoting an alternative material. Germany had the best foresters, the best chemists, and there were immense wood resources within reach of conquest in Europe and Russia.
— More and more and more by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Page 101)
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: …
Until the 1970s, material consumption was an important motif for advertising. Product quality and customer satisfaction depended on it. The consequence is paradoxical: the emergence of political ecology, the demonetization of the technological sublime and the rise of environmental scruples have played a negative role in the material understanding of production.
— More and more and more by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Page 86)
Move Slowly and Build Bridges tells the story of activists, software developers, artists, and everyday people who have built the …
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: …
In many ways coal is a new energy. The strongest growth in its history occurred between 1980 and 2010 (+300%), leading to an increase in its share of the global energy mix to the detriment of oil. It was also in the 2010s that the number of miners reached its peak. [...] Coal was the great energy of the 2000s: it fuelled the internet revolution, which is basically just another electron network, as much as the industrial revolution.
— More and more and more by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Page 14 - 15)
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, …
