The Energy Glut: The Politics of Fatness in an Overheating World

by Ian Roberts

Book Overview

World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially 'obese', more than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and global warming and war threaten our survival as a species. The Energy Glut tells the story of energy and how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links all of these public issues as manifestations of the same fundamental planetary malaise.

This exciting new book argues that the pulse of fossil fuel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848135181
• ISBN13: 9781848135185
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"