Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough

✍ Scribed by Holly Jean Buck

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ending the fossil fuel industry is the only credible path for climate policy

Around the world, countries and companies are setting net-zero carbon emissions targets. But what will it mean if those targets are achieved? One possibility is that fossil fuel companies will continue to produce billions of tons of atmospheric CO2 while relying on a symbiotic industry to scrub the air clean. Focusing on emissions draws our attention away from the real problem:  the point of production.

The fossil fuel industry must come to an end but will not depart willingly; governments must intervene. By embracing a politics of rural-urban coalitions and platform governance, climate advocates can build the political power needed to nationalize the fossil fuel industry and use its resources to draw carbon out of the atmosphere.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction: Controlled Demolition
Part 1. The Cruel Optimism of “Net Zero”
1. How to Not Say the F Word
2. Inventing Net Zero
3. What’s Truly “Hard to Decarbonize”?
4. Creating Negative Emissions
5. Why We Need a Planned Ending for Fossil Fuels
Part II. Five Ways of Looking at Fossil Fuel Phaseout
6. Culture
7. Infrastructure
8. Geopolitics
9. Code
10. Political Power
Part III. A Phaseout Toolbox for the 2020s
11. Moratoria, Bans, and Refusal to Finance
12. Ending Subsidies
13. Permission to Extract
14. Nationalize for Exit
15. Reverse Engineer
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Disclaimer