Climate Crisis, Energy Violence : Mapping Fossil Energy's Enduring Grasp on Our Precarious Future / Mary Finley-Brook and Stephen Metts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finley-Brook, Mary, author.

Metts, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects.

Fossil fuels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (570 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Academic Press, [2024]

Summary:

Climate Crisis, Energy Violence: Mapping Fossil Energy's Enduring Grasp on Our Precarious Future communicates the breadth and scope of fossil fuel infrastructure and its global impact.Comparative research coupled with data and maps accentuates the spatial, temporal, and physical forms of energy violence.

Contents:

Front Cover

Climate Crisis, Energy Violence

Copyright

Dedication

Honoring frontline defenders

Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (1941-95)

Fikile Ntshangase (1957-2020)

Berta Caceres (1973-2016)

Defense of life

Climate warriors

An invitation

Vocabulary

Recommendations

Books

Reports

Contents

Introduction: Manufacturing ignorance

Why study energy violence?

Decolonizing energy

Climate crisis

Methane madness

Manufacturing ignorance

Climate anxiety

Hyper greenwash

Extreme energy hazardscapes

Mapping power

Worldmaking

This book's objectives

Summary

Recommended

1 - Research methods

Space and power

Energy is spatial

Spatializing infrastructure

Time matters

Environmental injustice

Hotspots and blindspots

Decision-making power

Deathprint

Sacrifice zones

Embodied energy violence

Energy imaginaries

2 - Coal blooded

Coal's promise … and peril

Energy violence

Slow ecological violence

Spatial distribution

Coal sacrifice zones

Temporal analysis

Clean coal is dirty

Illustrative cases

United States

Rail extends coal

Divide and conquer

South Africa's energy injustice

Land grabbing in Mpumalanga

What is in a name?

Pit-to-port

Life after coal

China

Spatial and temporal synopsis

Space

Time

3 - Black lung

Untold narratives

False promises

Captured state

Myth of the free market

Myth of the benevolent state

Malicious Murray

Industry silencing

United Kingdom

India

Australia

Touring mines, mining tourists.

How should Appalachia commemorate coal?

African American erasure

Memorializing Blair Mountain

4 - King Coal's ashes

Is King Coal finally dethroned?

No one likes an ash hole

Deadly secrets in Kingston

Ash mobility in Chesapeake

A sacrifice zone - Guayama, Puerto Rico (US)

Guayama = ground zero

5 - Drilled

Oil's promise … and peril

TC Energy's oil spills

Colonial spills

Offshore oil spills

Deepwater disaster

Redlining and racism

Oil infrastructuring

Regaining our senses

Divestment

Climate litigation

Saudi Arabia

Conflict and oil

Abandoned oil

Canadian tar sands

Bomb trains, bomb trucks

Conflicts of interest

6 - Crude

Geographies of neglect

Nigeria

Wasteful flaring

Boom!

Shine on

Ecuador

Insecurity

Granting rights to nature

Video

7 - Rigged

Power, privilege, and prejudice

Oil overwatch

Keystone XL

Dakota Access Pipeline

Enbridge's Line 3 genocide

Land defenders, water protectors

Books.

Articles

Film

8 - Methane madness

Fossil gas' promise … and peril

Regime of measurement

Gaseous fictions

Public health crisis

Shale territoriality

What about super emitters?

Vertical and horizontal space grabs

Water worries

Cut gas off at the source

Fossil-fueled fascism

Performative permitting

Regulatory tug of war

America's "gaslandia"

Storage grabs

Gas hubbing

China's dash to gas

Authoritarian spaces

Gaslighting: A great leap backward

Methane myopia

Gas and growth

Empire-building

Missing a mitigation window

9 - Blast zone

Gaseous geographies

Industry obfuscation

Risk "management"

Living in the blast zone

Risk proximity

Sustainable gas?

Mountain valley corrosion

Argentine gas hubs

Can't offset injustice

Redistributing risk

Puerto Rico's energy battleground

A new fortress?

Energy colonialism

Energy security, energy democracy

10 - "Freedom" molecules

LNG's promise … and peril

LNG injustice

Illustrative examples

Extreme Qatari LNG

Mozambique's blood LNG

Canada LNG blockades

Australia's coastal LNG hubs

Freedom molecules?

Conclusion: Mapping fossil energy's deadly grasp

Mapping fossil energy's deadly grasp

Method 1-Acknowledge denial and delay

Discourses of climate delay.

Method 2-Expose structural violence

Myth of the level playing field

Method 3-Identify viable alternatives, educate, and mobilize

Past is present and future

Information access, data emissions

Prioritize the end of energy violence

Visualizing and intervening

Method 4-Divest-reinvest

Growth of empathy and solidarity

Community-based research

Method 5-Confront fossil fuel malfeasance

Energy commoning

Deep space and deep time

Conclusion: Spatial and temporal synopsis

RecommendedBooks

Acronyms

Praxis

Praxis 0-Acknowledgment and positionality

Take action

Recommended resources

Praxis 1-Mapping power and visualizing money flows

Praxis 2-EJAtlas and zine makers

Praxis 3-Climate justice in commemoration

Praxis 4-Exposing virtue signaling

Praxis 5-Hidden energy in cloud storage

Praxis 6-Ending plastic requires global solidarity

Praxis 7-Building blue-green-brown alliances

Praxis 8-Climate reparations with divest-reinvest

Praxis 9-Survivance guide

Praxis 10-Eco-defense and counter-tactics

Praxis 11-Ecological grief and grounding

Praxis 12-On-site and online learning resources

Organizations

References

Curricula

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Finley-Brook, Mary Climate Crisis, Energy Violence

ISBN:

9780128195024

OCLC:

1453197472