Energy Revolutions: Profiteering versus Democracy
Autor David Tokeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mai 2024
In 2022, the world was plunged into an energy crisis. The Russian invasion of Ukraine jeopardized energy security, while profits soared for oil and gas companies and climate breakdown continued to accelerate. How did such interlocking crises come to be in a world of abundant renewable energy?
This book exposes the energy crisis as an inevitable result of an industry run by and for corporate profit. Energy policy was never meant to favor sustainability or energy security. For decades, it has been shaped by corporate interests while hampering renewable alternatives. Now, we suffer the cascading consequences.
Written by a leading energy expert, Energy Revolutions reveals the urgent need to radically increase state intervention, including public ownership, and deploy energy democracy for the public interest. Exploring examples of energy democracy worldwide shows us how to fight back against fossil fuel interests, avoid climate catastrophe, and transform energy into a cheap, decentralized good for all.
This book exposes the energy crisis as an inevitable result of an industry run by and for corporate profit. Energy policy was never meant to favor sustainability or energy security. For decades, it has been shaped by corporate interests while hampering renewable alternatives. Now, we suffer the cascading consequences.
Written by a leading energy expert, Energy Revolutions reveals the urgent need to radically increase state intervention, including public ownership, and deploy energy democracy for the public interest. Exploring examples of energy democracy worldwide shows us how to fight back against fossil fuel interests, avoid climate catastrophe, and transform energy into a cheap, decentralized good for all.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780745349251
ISBN-10: 0745349250
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
ISBN-10: 0745349250
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Recenzii
'Toke doesn’t mince words. His title alone says it all. What’s needed is not a transition from fossil fuels, as COP 28 meekly requested, but a revolution in how we procure, distribute, and use energy. But Toke boldly goes further, calling for a revolution in who gets to develop and own our renewable future. In doing so, he takes on the axis of evil, Reagan-Thatcherism, and their destructive cult of neoliberalism that has shackled renewable energy for decades to the benefit of fossil fuels and their minions.'
Paul Gipe, author of Wind Energy for the Rest of Us
'The future of Humankind depends on the choices we make about future energy systems. Those choices will be ideologically-driven: will Western governments go on prioritising obscene corporate profits at the expense of genuine energy security, lower prices and radical decarbonisation? David Toke authoritatively demonstrates how insane that would be – and what brilliant alternatives are already available to us.'
Jonathon Porritt, author of Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency
'The fossil-fuel era was marked by inequality and dominated by oligarchs. David Toke provides a vision of how, in the renewable era, shared ownership of energy could lead to a future of equality and economic as well as energy security.'
Molly Scott Cato, Professor Emerita of Green Economics, Roehampton University
Paul Gipe, author of Wind Energy for the Rest of Us
'The future of Humankind depends on the choices we make about future energy systems. Those choices will be ideologically-driven: will Western governments go on prioritising obscene corporate profits at the expense of genuine energy security, lower prices and radical decarbonisation? David Toke authoritatively demonstrates how insane that would be – and what brilliant alternatives are already available to us.'
Jonathon Porritt, author of Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency
'The fossil-fuel era was marked by inequality and dominated by oligarchs. David Toke provides a vision of how, in the renewable era, shared ownership of energy could lead to a future of equality and economic as well as energy security.'
Molly Scott Cato, Professor Emerita of Green Economics, Roehampton University
Notă biografică
David Toke is Reader in Energy Politics at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of nine books, has written in many newspapers and magazines, and is the founding director of the not-for-profit organisation 100percentrenewableuk.
Cuprins
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Pathways to Energy Revolutions
2. How Neoliberalism Wrecked UK Energy... and How to Turn Things Around
3. USA and Canada: How Pro-Corporate Policies Have Slowed the Energy Revolution - But How Far Can Biden's Laws Change This?
4. The EU: Neoliberalism Has Failed - So What Could Be Next?
5. Getting Green Energy
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Pathways to Energy Revolutions
2. How Neoliberalism Wrecked UK Energy... and How to Turn Things Around
3. USA and Canada: How Pro-Corporate Policies Have Slowed the Energy Revolution - But How Far Can Biden's Laws Change This?
4. The EU: Neoliberalism Has Failed - So What Could Be Next?
5. Getting Green Energy
Conclusion
Descriere
A way out of the energy crisis – a green, cheap, democratic energy system is possible