Fossil Capital: the rise of steam power and the roots of global warming
Book Review

http://www.theecologist.org/reviews/2987605/fossil_capital_the_rise_of_steam_power_and_the_roots_of_global_warming.html
Date Written:  2016-04-27
Publisher:  Ecologist
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19317

We all know that coal and steam vanquished over water power in Britain's - and the world's - industrial revolution, writes Irma Allen. But as Andreas Malm sets out in his fascinating new book, the deciding factors in that victory were the unconstrained mastery over people and nature that coal provided mill owners. And so the model was set for the fossil age that may only now be coming to an end.