Oil in parallax: Scarcity, markets, and the financialization of accumulation

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Perceptions of time in relation to climate change (2014, unknown): “42 In turn, interactions between the economic colonization of the future and processes that ensure the short-term economic health of societies affect climate change (e.g., by making the exploitation of tar sands economically viable and releasing more GHGs).”
World cities under conditions of financialized globalization (2015, background): “For example, firms whose business correlates with weather conditions will buy weather derivatives (Pike and Pollard, 2010), whereas oil-producing and oil-consuming industries use oil derivatives as a hedging and accumulation strategy (Labban, 2010).”
Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”: Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military (2019, background): “A geopolitical ecology framework exposes the larger institutional processes at work in the material production of global natures (Labban 2010; Mitchell 2011; Usher 2018; Valdivia 2008), and in our case, the contribution of militaries to environmental change at a variety of scales (cf.”