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1. Introduction

verfasst von : Denise Fairchild, Al Weinrub

Erschienen in: Energy Democracy

Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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Abstract

What does it mean to get real about climate change and take back control over our energy resources? What energy alternatives represent real solutions to the economic and environmental crisis confronting our civilization?

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Fußnoten
1
Dana Nuccitelli, “Facts Matter and on Climate Change, Trumps Picks Get Them Wrong,” The Guardian, accessed December 27, 2016, https://​www.​theguardian.​com/​environment/​climate-consensus-97-per-cent/​2016/​dec/​27/​facts-matter-and-on-climate-change-trumps-picks-get-them-wrong.
 
2
Bill McKibben, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math,” Rolling Stone, July 19, 2012, http://​www.​rollingstone.​com/​politics/​news/​global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719.
 
5
Sean Sweeney, Resist, Reclaim, Restructure: Unions and the Struggle for Energy Democracy, October 2012, Executive Summary, http://​energydemocracyi​nitiative.​org/​required-reading-roundtable-discussion-document.
 
7
Rachel Morello-Frosch, Manuel Pastor, James Sadd, and Seth B. Shonkoff, The Climate Gap: Executive Summary—Inequalities in How Climate Change Hurts Americans and How to Close the Gap (2010).
 
8
Jack Rasmus, “America’s Ten Crises,” June 30, 2012, http://​www.​kyklosproduction​s.​com/​posts/​index.​php?​p=​160.
 
9
Rmuse, “Report Shows the Oil Industry Benefits from $5.3 Trillion in Subsidies Annually,” Politics USA, June 9, 2015, http://​www.​politicususa.​com/​tag/​annual-oil-subsidies.
 
10
Ibid.
 
11
Two days after the historic 2014 climate march in New York City calling for climate action, federal and California State officials released an 8,000-page proposal for private renewable energy development on 22.5 million acres of California desert. See Carolyn Lochhead, Energy Plan Calls for Big Renewables Projects in State’s Deserts, September 23, 2014, http://​www.​sfgate.​com/​green/​article/​Sprawling-solar-farms-OKd-near-desert-national-5775871.​php.
 
12
A ten-minute video in which Al Weinrub describes decentralized energy systems and their community benefits can be found at http://​www.​youtube.​com/​watch?​v=​HvuXxyKSh3A.
 
Metadaten
Titel
Introduction
verfasst von
Denise Fairchild
Al Weinrub
Copyright-Jahr
2017
Verlag
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-852-7_1