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Simon Pirani

Researcher, lecturer and writer + + + Honorary Professor, University of Durham

Thursday, 24 August 2023

How to do away with fossil fuel consumption

This article offers an overview of the processes through which fossil fuels are consumed, and how researchers analyse these; discusses how Karl Marx’s theoretical approach might help us develop this analysis; suggests ways to envisage the transition away from fossil fuels; and comments on the strategies needed to hasten the transition. It is based on a talk I gave at the Rosa Luxemburg foundation in Berlin.

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I am a researcher, writer and lecturer, and author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption (Pluto Press, 2018). My main area of research is the transition away from fossil fuels, with a focus on how technological, social and economic systems change. I write a blog at peoplenature.org. Bluesky: @simonpirani.bsky.social.

My earlier work as a historian and energy researcher was focused on Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet countries. My book The Russian Revolution in Retreat 1920-24: Soviet workers and the new communist elite (Routledge, 2008) was a study of working-class political history. I published some relevant documents in Communist Dissidents in Early Soviet Russia (Troubadour, 2023). Another book, Change in Putin’s Russia: Power, Money and People (Pluto Press, 2010) was based on my work as a journalist.

I am Honorary Professor in the School of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Durham. From 2007 to 2021 I was Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, working on the Natural Gas Research Programme.


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