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The Petroptimist: Dancing in the Ruins of Fossil Capitalism
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The Petroptimist: Dancing in the Ruins of Fossil Capitalism

Pascal Menoret
Middle Eastern Cities in a Time of Climate Crisis, pp.35-48
CEDEJ - Égypte/Soudan
2022

Abstract

Economics Environmental Studies
Cars have done more to damage our cities than wars.—J. H. Crawford, Carfree Cities Saudi Cars and the Ecological Crisis What can we learn from Riyadh that might reduce our dependency on the car? We know that cars contribute a great deal to the current ecological crisis. This crisis is a consequence of what some authors call the Anthropocene while others, pointing to the specific responsibilities of capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, use the terms Capitalocene, Plantationocene or Secular...

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