![]() ![]() ![]() The first part of the book discusses the history, factors and social phenomena that led to the adoption and then the victorious dominance of steam engine energy in England’s industrial production. His narrative draws a line from preindustrial self-sustaining growth, to the subsequent economic expansion of the industrial era, which included the extraction of minerals and their combustion, and led to the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the resulting global warming. With this chronological approach, he traces the origins of the Anthropocene from the Industrial Revolution. Identifying global warming as one of the most dire problems of today, Malm demands that we reëxamine our history with “eyes wide open,” starting with the question "when did it all begin?" As the first part of IZOLYATSIA’s resource list developed for our work on the topic of Grounding, we offer excerpts from the book by the Swedish researcher of human ecology Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, published by Verso in 2016, but not yet available in Ukrainian. ![]()
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