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. Over 25 international case studies track the world’s three primary fossil fuels-first coal, followed by oil, then gas-revealing patterns of loss and damage, as well as industrial tactics of climate delay and deception used to prolong fossil fuel harms. Through analyses of hotspots, sacrifice zones, fast vs slow violence, death prints and fuel life cycles, immediate ecological damage as well as long-term climate impacts are revealed, tied directly to fossil fuel interests. In detailing the broad scope of damage from energy extraction systems, this book provides a compelling argument to move past fossil fuels, directly confronting the climate crisis through energy justice alliances.
Table of Contents
1. Energy Violence and Environmental Racism2. Research Methodology
3. Illustrative Cases
4. Comparative Analysis
5. Findings
Authors
Mary Finley-Brook Associate Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies, and Global Studies, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA. Mary Finley-Brook is an Associate Professor of Geography, and Global Studies at the University of Richmond, in Virginia, USA. She has decades of experience conducting participatory action research and collaborates regularly with community-based organizations and frontline populations to advance climate justice in energy sector transformation. Stephen Metts GIS Analyst, Instructor, and Scholar based in New York City, USA.Stephen Metts is a GIS Analyst, Instructor, and Scholar based in New York City, USA. His research and practice provides spatial analysis with specialities in energy infrastructure, environmental justice, and community impacts. As Part-Time Associate Teaching Professor at The New School, NYC, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses featuring Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping of global and regional issues related to land use, climate change, human rights, and migration.
