Climate Crisis, Energy Violence - Introduction: Manufacturing ignorance

While we use energy every day, we don't expect our consumption to threaten the survival of others, and it shouldn't. Most of us benefit from energy colonialism in some form, yet many of us are unaware of its damage or the unfair distribution of its costs and benefits. Fuel supply is often exploitative, placing a burden on vulnerable populations. Using “violence” as a conceptual framework attends to dangerous aspects of many forms of energy often overlooked. Slow and fast energy violence provides an analytical lens to communicate avoidable social crises and ecological catastrophe while encouraging inquiry and engagement from readers. This book demonstrates “textbook” cases of energy violence using an empirical approach highlighting (1) spatial and temporal evidence and (2) ecological and societal impacts across global and local scales, including frontline communities.