Author profile: Simon Pirani

Simon Pirani is author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption, and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. His previous history writing includes The Russian Revolution in Retreat (Routledge, 2008) and Change in Putin’s Russia (Pluto, 2010).

The Fossil Fuelled Monster and the Climate Failures of States

Simon Pirani • Feb 2 2020 • Articles

Disaster can summon up qualities of creativeness and solidarity that in ordinary times people do not know they have. These are the qualities that we need, now.

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