Anthropology and the fossil fuel era

  1. Thomas Love

Article first published online: 28 MAR 2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2008.00568.x

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Anthropology Today

Anthropology Today

Volume 24, Issue 2, pages 3–4, April 2008

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Love, T. (2008), Anthropology and the fossil fuel era. Anthropology Today, 24: 3–4. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2008.00568.x

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  1. Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Linfield College, Oregon. He specializes on rural livelihood in the Peruvian highlands and adjacent Amazonia, as well as in his native US Pacific Northwest. His current focus is on the social and cultural implications of oil consumption patterns in these regions. His email is tlove@linfield.edu.

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  1. Issue published online: 28 MAR 2008
  2. Article first published online: 28 MAR 2008

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Abstract:

Oil is so vital to the growth economy today that we find it almost impossible to imagine a world without it. Given that world oil production is constrained and that our fossil fuel consumption per capita is no longer sustainable, what are the consequences for humanity, especially the world's poor majority? This editorial urges anthropologists to confront this question with the full range and force of our discipline's insights, data and methods.

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