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Chapter 24 - Great Accelerations IV: Maximal Hydrocarbon, Maximal Waste

from Part Three - Cities of Hydrocarbon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2022

Carl H. Nightingale
Carl H. Nightingale
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Buffalo
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Chapter 24 of Earthopolis: A Biography of Our Urban Planet explores the Great Acceleration of the “global petroleumscape,” and the immensity of the human waste we generate in a distended Urban Planet fueled by hydrocarbon. It surveys spaces of mineral extraction of all kinds before following the growth of the post-World War II petroleumscape and its many drastic effects on global geopolitics, the priorities of capitalists, and the wasteful shape of Cities of Hydrocarbon. From there, we visit the waste streams of Earthopolis, following them from their disgorgement in factories and spaces of consumption across the continents, down the rivers, across the oceans, and into the atmosphere as a whole.

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Citiesextractive industries“global petroleumscape,” Cold War“War on Terror,” Middle East politics
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Earthopolis
A Biography of Our Urban Planet
 , pp. 612 - 643
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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