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Malm

Andreas Malm

Universitetslektor

Malm

China as Chimney of the World: The Fossil Capital Hypothesis

Författare

  • Andreas Malm

Summary, in English

What has caused the early 21st-century emissions explosion in China? Driving a global explosion, it appears to stand in some relation to processes of globalization, but these links have mostly remained unexplored. This article revisits some established frameworks for understanding the connection between globalization and environmental degradation and argues that they are insufficient for explaining the Chinese explosion. A new hypothesis is outlined, called "the fossil capital hypothesis." It proposes that globally mobile capital will tend to relocate production to countries with cheap and disciplined labor, but only through the accelerated consumption of fossil energy. Via three specified "effects," the inflow of global capital will therefore set off massive increases in CO2 emissions. The hypothesis is applied in a brief analysis of developments in China between 2001 and 2008, and in other Asian countries after the Chinese strike wave in 2010.

Avdelning/ar

  • Humanekologi

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

146-177

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Organization & Environment

Volym

25

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Social and Economic Geography

Nyckelord

  • CO2 emissions
  • globalization
  • China
  • embodied emissions in trade
  • labor
  • fossil capital
  • environmental Kuznets curve in reverse

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1552-7417