Political Science - Public Policy - Energy Policy
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Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our FutureGreen energy and renewables are heralded as the only way to mitigate our ever-worsening ecological crisis. But that's not the whole story. In Bad Energy, award-winning journalist Joshua Frank argues that the green energy transition is driven not by an effort to save the...
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Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World MarketHow oil greases the wheels of global capitalism This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse', Crude Capitalism uncovers the surprising ways...
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Extraction: The Frontiers of Green CapitalismLithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutions come at a cost. Mining lithium is environmentally destructive. We therefore confront a dilemma: Is it possible to save the...
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Nuclear Revolution: Powering the Next GenerationSkyrocketing energy prices are placing downward pressure on economic growth throughout the world. There seems to be no relief in sight, with hundreds of millions without access to reliable energy and with global energy consumption expected to grow by 50 percent over the next...
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On OilA journalist, and former roughneck, considers our long, complex, tortured relationship with oil.Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and is now a threat. It has started wars,...
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Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American StatesIn 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in...
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