19\4 | Virtual Colloquium | Powering Empire (On Barak, Tel-Aviv University)
The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East—as an idea—was made by coal. Coal’s imperial infrastructure presaged the geopolitics of oil that wreaks carnage today, as carbonization threatens our very climate. Powering Empire argues that we cannot promote worldwide decarbonization without first understanding the history of the globalization of carbon energy. How did this black rock come to have such long-lasting power over the world economy?
Sunday, 18:00, ZOOM.
For more details contact oren.harman@gmail.com
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