Simon Pirani is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and has written widely on Soviet history and energy issues. His books include Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption (Pluto, 2018), The Russian Revolution in Retreat (Routledge, 2008) and Change in Putin’s Russia (Pluto, 2009).
Simon Pirani
Simon Pirani
Of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Simon Pirani examines the technological, social and economic systems we need to tackle in order to solve global warming.
Read full articleA video of Simon Pirani’s 2018 seminar on fossil fuel consumption at the Tyndall Centre in Manchester.
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