ABSTRACT
On the one hand it is discouraging. “Addiction” is casually deployed in popular discourse, encompassing everything from heroin to social media use, appearing to render the concept theoretically impotent. On the other hand use of the word addiction does indeed imply a connection between global warming, the habituated pattern of fossil fuel use-from individual auto-driving to a fossil fuel based agriculture-and the human desires and drives that animate this abuse. Even the pattern of casual admission followed by denial speaks to the similarity between oil addiction and other addictions.
