This is a groundbreaking new history of energy and humanity's insatiable demand for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change.

*Winner of the Nouvel Observateur Award, the Fondation pour l’écologie politique Award, the Turgot Jury Prize, and the Senate History Book Prize 2025*

*Chosen as the Book of the Year by The Economist and the Financial Times*

It has become commonplace to think of our relationship with energy as a process of transition: wood being replaced by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear energy, and then in the future all being replaced by green sources. However, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s book reveals an incredible deception. Far from passing through the industrial age via a series of transformations, each new phase has actually remained almost completely linked to the previous one. In reality, the very concept of transition proves to be false.

The author shares the same sharp concern about the need for a green transition as others, but shows how, catastrophically, our industrial history is based on mutual dependency, with each major energy source fueling the others. Using a remarkable variety of examples, Fressoz describes how we have consumed all forms of energy – entire forests being used to support coal mines, coal remaining central to the creation of countless new products, and oil still being vital to our lives. The world now burns more wood and coal than ever before.

This book reveals an uncomfortable truth: the “transition” was initially promoted by energy companies not as a genuine plan but as a means to avoid any real change. *More and More and More* forces readers to understand the modern world in its entire predatory reality and the fundamental nature of the challenges awaiting us.

Pages: 320, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm