Book #14: Fossil Capital
Fossil fuels won out over renewables... but it doesn't need to stay that way.
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Happy summer! I hope you find yourself laid out on a beach with a desire to plow through a brick of a book, because I think this one will deliver. However, a combo of new job and some personal stuff has me out of spoons at the moment. We will NOT be meeting to discuss this book and (fingers crossed) will regroup in October for two fiction reads.
Thank you so much for your understanding! xo
A few of you suggested we read Andreas Malm’s popular polemic, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, but in line with my rule of “no best sellers,” I’ve chosen one of Malm’s chunkier tomes that’s been sitting on my shelf for a couple of years. Fossil Capital promises to be a scathing history of capitalism’s race to the bottom and its prioritization of fossil fuels over other renewable energy sources. We haven’t read almost anything as a group about energy and renewables, so I’m eager to read this one as a group through Malm’s unique lens.
For continued reading, please check out Who Owns the Wind?: Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy by David McDermott Hughes and Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough by Holly Jean Buck.