Comments on: Book review – A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations

By: Book review – Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:41:42 +0000

[…] energy system, tracing the story through coal, whale oil, steam, natural gas, oil, and how electrification came to invade every aspect of developed societies. Though the people and episodes covered overlap […]

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By: Book review – The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:40:46 +0000

[…] well-heeled as by the labourers on the factory floors. Simultaneously, some developments, such as electricity and industries setting up shop overseas, have created a divide between consumers and producers, […]

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By: Jacques Charlwood

Jacques Charlwood — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:04:47 +0000

An interesting and to the point review (once again). Living much of my life in rural Africa (mostly Mozambique and Tanzania) I see that the push towards Western style consumerism continues. After all if you have electricity the first thing you want to get after that is a flat screen TV. And what is peddled on TV but Western style consumerism – not sustainability or general information towards a better lifestyle. Electricity may, by itself, improve peoples health by changing their behaviour (staying in to watch said TV at night instead of being outside) but this is a relatively peripheral advantage.

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