Author: Alex Epstein
Publisher: Deusto
ISBN: 8423432696
Category : Science
Languages : es
Pages : 530
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Durante décadas, hemos oído una y otra vez que utilizar combustibles fósiles es una adicción autodestructiva que acabará con nuestro planeta. Pero, al mismo tiempo, según todos los datos sobre bienestar humano, éste no ha dejado de mejorar. ¿Cómo es posible? Lo que ocurre, como sostiene en La cuestión moral de los combustibles fósiles el experto en energía Alex Epstein, es que solemos escuchar sólo una versión de la historia. Nos describen la parte negativa de los combustibles fósiles, sus riesgos y efectos colaterales, pero no la positiva: su capacidad única para ofrecer energía barata y fiable a un mundo donde habitan 7.000 millones de personas. Este hecho, la posibilidad del acceso universal a una energía asequible y funcional, tiene implicaciones morales en las que rara vez pensamos. Porque la energía permite mejorar todos los aspectos de la vida. Basándose en las últimas investigaciones, y con un brillante despliegue de ideas originales y rompedoras, Epstein desnuda todos los mitos que, interesadamente, rodean a los combustibles fósiles. Y afirma que, pese su demonización, estos no sólo deben usarse, sino defenderse y considerarse una herramienta para transformar y mejorar nuestras vidas.
Author: Alex Epstein
Publisher: Deusto
ISBN: 8423435423
Category : Science
Languages : es
Pages : 702
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Un libro que replantea todo lo que creías saber sobre los combustibles y el futuro del medio ambiente Los medios de comunicación nos bombardean día sí y día también con predicciones apocalípticas y tremendistas sobre la irreversible «emergencia climática». Sin embargo, y pese a las consignas de los supuestos expertos en transición ecológica y los activistas medioambientales, la realidad ha acabado dándole la razón al filósofo y experto en energía Alex Epstein. Durante más de una década, ha defendido que cualquier impacto negativo de los combustibles fósiles en el medio ambiente se ve superado con creces por los beneficios que reporta su uso para el desarrollo humano, incluida su capacidad para proporcionar energía fiable y barata a miles de millones de personas en todo el mundo, especialmente a las más vulnerables. Los combustibles fósiles no sólo han llevado la pobreza a un mínimo histórico:siguen siendo la fuente de energía dominante y su uso se incrementa, mientras que las energías renovables defraudan todas las expectativas y se muestran como una tecnología cara e ineficiente. Epstein argumenta que, si bien la energía fósil ha contribuido al calentamiento de 1 grado en los últimos 170 años, las muertes relacionadas con el clima están en mínimos históricos gracias, precisamente, a su desarrollo. En Un futuro fósil, Epstein aplica su distintivo «marco de desarrollo humano» para afirmar que también las generaciones venideras disfrutarán de los beneficios de los combustibles fósiles. El camino hacia el progreso humano global, sostiene, pasa por una combinación de más combustibles fósiles con una mejor comprensión del clima, y por establecer políticas de «libertad energética» que permitan que la energía nuclear y otras alternativas verdaderamente prometedoras alcancen todo su potencial a largo plazo.
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ISBN: 9788423434695
Category : Science
Languages : es
Pages : 0
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Author: J. Timmons Roberts
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262264412
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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The global debate over who should take action to address climate change is extremely precarious, as diametrically opposed perceptions of climate justice threaten the prospects for any long-term agreement. Poor nations fear limits on their efforts to grow economically and meet the needs of their own people, while powerful industrial nations, including the United States, refuse to curtail their own excesses unless developing countries make similar sacrifices. Meanwhile, although industrialized countries are responsible for 60 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, developing countries suffer the "worst and first" effects of climate-related disasters, including droughts, floods, and storms, because of their geographical locations. In A Climate of Injustice, J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley Parks analyze the role that inequality between rich and poor nations plays in the negotiation of global climate agreements. Roberts and Parks argue that global inequality dampens cooperative efforts by reinforcing the "structuralist" worldviews and causal beliefs of many poor nations, eroding conditions of generalized trust, and promoting particularistic notions of "fair" solutions. They develop new measures of climate-related inequality, analyzing fatality and homelessness rates from hydrometeorological disasters, patterns of "emissions inequality," and participation in international environmental regimes. Until we recognize that reaching a North-South global climate pact requires addressing larger issues of inequality and striking a global bargain on environment and development, Roberts and Parks argue, the current policy gridlock will remain unresolved.
Author: Howard T. Odum
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607320819
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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A Prosperous Way Down (2001), the last book by Howard T. and Elisabeth C. Odum, has shaped politics and planning as nations, states, and localities begin the search for ways to adapt to a future with vastly increased competition for energy. A Prosperous Way Down considers ways in which a future with less fossil fuel could be peaceful and prosperous. Although history records the collapse of countless civilizations, some societies and ecosystems have managed to descend in orderly stages, reducing demands and selecting and saving what is most important. The authors make recommendations for a more equitable and cooperative world society, with specific suggestions based on their evaluations of trends in global population, wealth distribution, energy sources, conservation, urban development, capitalism and international trade, information technology, and education. Available for the first time in paperback, this thoughtful, pigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utah—where they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions, two of the worst mining disasters in American history—and the history of coal development in Utah form the second part. Then Thomas investigates coal mining and communities in West Virginia, near her East Coast home, looking at the Sago Mine collapse and more widespread impacts of mining, including population displacement, mountain top removal, coal dust dispersal, and stream pollution, flooding, and decimation. The book's final part moves from Washington D.C.—and an examination of coal, CO2, and national energy policy—back to Utah, for a tour of a coal mine, and a consideration of the Crandall Canyon mine cave-in, back to Wales and the closing of the oldest operating deep mine in the world and then to a look at energy alternatives, especially wind power, in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Author: Jem Bendell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351276468
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 451
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The global response from business to social and environmental issues during the past decade has created a corporate responsibility movement. But what has been the impact of this movement? The financial crisis that began in 2007 has led more and more people to question the fundamentals of our economic system. Now, some within the corporate responsibility movement are developing a vision and practice of a new form of capitalism, one that will require collective action to achieve. Bendell and Doyle draw on Lifeworth's annual reviews of corporate responsibility and explain how business leaders, stakeholders and related academe now need to experiment with new models that address the fundamental flaws of contemporary capitalism, including monetary systems, enterprise ownership, and regulation. This book will be a fantastic resource for business libraries, as it records and analyses key events, issues and trends in corporate responsibility during the first decade of the 21st century. It is a sequel and companion to Bendell's previous work, The Corporate Responsibility Movement.
Author: Oran R. Young
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711393
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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How can the global environment be safeguarded in the absence of a world government? In the vanguard of efforts to address this critical question, Oran R. Young draws on environmental issues to explore the nature of international governance. Young's analysis invokes the distinction between "governance," a social function involving the management of interdependent individuals or groups, and "government," a set of formal organizations that makes and enforces rules.
Author: Edouard Morena
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780745339924
Category : Employee rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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How can we secure jobs in the shift towards sustainable production?
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Author: Irene Dankelman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136540261
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Although climate change affects everybody it is not gender neutral. It has significant social impacts and magnifies existing inequalities such as the disparity between women and men in their vulnerability and ability to cope with this global phenomenon. This new textbook, edited by one of the authors of the seminal Women and the Environment in the Third World: Alliance for the Future (1988) which first exposed the links between environmental degradation and unequal impacts on women, provides a comprehensive introduction to gender aspects of climate change. Over 35 authors have contributed to the book. It starts with a short history of the thinking and practice around gender and sustainable development over the past decades. Next it provides a theoretical framework for analyzing climate change manifestations and policies from the perspective of gender and human security. Drawing on new research, the actual and potential effects of climate change on gender equality and women's vulnerabilities are examined, both in rural and urban contexts. This is illustrated with a rich range of case studies from all over the world and valuable lessons are drawn from these real experiences. Too often women are primarily seen as victims of climate change, and their positive roles as agents of change and contributors to livelihood strategies are neglected. The book disputes this characterization and provides many examples of how women around the world organize and build resilience and adapt to climate change and the role they are playing in climate change mitigation. The final section looks at how far gender mainstreaming in climate mitigation and adaptation has advanced, the policy frameworks in place and how we can move from policy to effective action. Accompanied by a wide range of references and key resources, this book provides students and professionals with an essential, comprehensive introduction to the gender aspects of climate change.
