The Mobilisation of Extractivism: The Social and Political Influence of the Fossil Fuel Industry

Title: The Mobilisation of Extractivism: The Social and Political Influence of the Fossil Fuel Industry
Creator: Wright, Christopher; Nyberg, Daniel
Relation: Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis p. 113-126
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0265.09
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: The worsening climate crisis has led to growing social and political demands for meaningful climate action and the decarbonisation of economies. And yet, the modern global economy is defined by fossil fuel energy which has shaped the last two centuries of economic growth and development. In this chapter, we outline how the fossil fuel industry has defined the global economy and defended its position as the most powerful industry in the world. We examine how assumptions of corporate self-regulation as the logical response to the climate crisis allow for the continuation of a ‘business as usual’ approach in which fossil fuel energy is maintained. We argue that this approach deliberately ignores the urgent need for government regulation of carbon emissions, and that current corporate responses to the climate crisis rely on the politics of ‘predatory delay’.
Subject: fossil fuel energy; fossil fuel industry; climate action; decarbonisation; carbon emissions; climate crisis
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1473695
Identifier: uon:49089
Identifier: ISBN:9781800642638
Language: eng

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