More and more and more : an all-consuming history of energy

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Describes how our industrial age and beyond has in fact been powered by an ever-greater accumulation of each major energy source feeding off the others. Fressoz describes how humanity has gorged on all forms of energy, with whole forests used to prop up coal mines, and fossil fuels remaining central to the creation of innumerable new products we rely on every day.

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Introduction: A Symbiotic History of Energy -- A History of Energy by Candlelight -- 'The Age of . . .': Material Stagism and Its Problems -- Coal and Wood: A Tangled History -- The Timber Palace -- Liaisons carbone -- The Carbon Fallacy -- The Roots of Growth -- The Pétrolization of Wood -- Technocracy Inc. -- Atomic Malthusians -- The Invention of the Energy Crisis -- 'Play the technology card' -- Conclusion: The Weight of History