Thinking Through Climate Change
A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene
In this creative exploration of climate change and the big questions confronting our high-energy civilization, Adam Briggle connects the history of philosophy with current events to shed light on the Anthropocene (the age of humanity). Briggle offers a framework to help us understand the many perspectives and policies on climate change. He does so through the idea that energy is a paradox: changing sameness. From this perennial philosophical mystery, he argues that a high-energy civilization is bound to create more and more paradoxes. These paradoxes run like fissures through our orthodox picture of energy as the capacity to do work and cont…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-030-53586-5
- EAN: 9783030535865
- Produktnummer: 34935934
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Masse: H20.6 cm x B14.7 cm x D1.6 cm 376 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 376
Über den Autor
Adam Briggle is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. He is the author of A Rich Bioethics (2010) and A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking (2015).
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