Hegel. A Very Short Introduction

One Btu is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit. One barrel of crude oil = 5,800,000 Btu, one short ton of coal = 20,754,000 Btu, one cubic foot of natural gas = 1,031 Btu, one cord wood=20,000,000 Btu. 22 Coal increased from 6,841 to 22,580 trillion Btu/year. Appendix F, EIA Annual Energy Review, 2001. 23 Oil increased from 229 to 38,404 trillion Btu/year. Ibid. 24 Wood-fuel increased from 2,015 to 2,257 trillion Btu/year. Ibid. 25 Jared Diamond, БЂњWhatБЂ™s Your Consumption Factor?БЂ«The New York Times, January 2, 2008. 26 For a brief introduction to globalization see Manfred StegerБЂ™s Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). See also Global Transformations by David Held et al., eds. (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1999); Runaway World by Anthony Giddens (New York: Routledge, 2000); Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004); Globalization and the Race for Resources by Steven Bunker and Paul Ciccantell (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005); Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power by John A ...»