More and More and More

“This is where Fressoz’s new book is indispensable. In admirable historical and quantitative detail, he shows that we are not in an energy transition, but rather an energy accumulation. So, more and more and more, yes: the more people read this book, the more our chances grow for coping successfully with this fundamental danger.” – Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Red Mars

“This is truly a radical and very necessary new history of energy. A rich, unnerving, funny and utterly compelling account, it destabilizes our understanding again and again. With uncanny examples, he makes the invisible obvious, and shows how the obvious was made invisible by forms of understanding in which even climate activists operate. This remarkable material and intellectual history will change our minds about one of the most important challenges humanity currently faces; indeed it gives us a new way of thinking about the profound challenge decarbonization represents.” – David Edgerton, author of The Shock of the Old

“In Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s gripping, surprising pageant of humanity’s lust for energy, history doesn’t whisper to us, it roars. This is a must-read, urgent reality check for our assumptions about fighting climate change.” – Alan Weisman, author of Hope Dies Last and The World Without Us

“More and More and More, from Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, is a thoroughly engaging book. It’s a timely, fascinating and unique take on a topic - climate change and energy consumption - that often lends itself to scholarly and academic discourses. Fressoz’s central thesis - that the human species doesn’t cleanly move from one energy consumption cycle to the next but, rather, piles them all on top of each other - is a novel construct. I was immediately drawn in.” – Jeff Nesbit, author of This Is the Way the World Ends and Poison Tea

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science and technology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. His previous books include The Happy Apocalypse and The Shock of the Anthropocene.