Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum by Jeff Diamanti - 9781350191839

Climate and Capital in the Age of PetroleumLocating Terminal Landscapes\nAuthor(s): Jeff Diamanti\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350191839, 978-1350191839\nSynopsis\nJeff Diamanti describes the destructive relationship between climate and capital through the exponential growth of the petroleum industry over the last 40 years. Building on key insights in the environmental and energy humanities, Diamanti introduces the concept of the terminal landscape as a site of storage, transformation and transition, essential to critical ecology in the 21st century.\n\nClimate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum presents these scenes of transformation as sites through which post-industrial capitalism distributes fossil fuels into the world. Diamanti uses this concept to redefine the post-industrial landscape by revealing the global flows of exchange and storage that precede the distribution of fossil fuels into th.