Tag: globalisaation

• More and more and more

  I read a book a few weeks ago that has turned my head!  As I dived into each chapter, I learned more and more frightening statistics that expose the reality of the so-called ‘energy transition’. More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (2024) is an eye-opening text that considers the…

  Isabella Muir

  June 14, 2025

  climate change, Contemporary history, environment, nature, politics, Post war Britain

  climate change, energy transition, environment, globalisaation, green growth

• The bottom billion

  Global trade and globalisation are now so ingrained in our world that it would seem impossible to remove them, to return to a time when local produce was enjoyed entirely by local people. Of course, trading across borders is not a new concept. As far back as the nineteenth century, British whaling ships landed on…

  Isabella Muir

  May 31, 2025

  Contemporary history, politics, postgraduate study, reading, research, social history

  capitalism, economic power, environmental concerns, globalisaation, indigenous peoples, inequality, injustice, trade