No More Fossils, by Dominic Boyer

Forerunners is a series of short books from the University of Minnesota Press, where authors can offer “thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead.”

No More Fossils is part of that series, probing the ‘fossil’ aspect of the term fossil fuels. What is a fossil? How do they form, and what sorts of ideas does it provoke when we think about climate change and our current oil dependency?

Dominic Boyer is an anthropologist in the envir...