Can you identify unaccounted costs or externalities of fossil fuel politically, socially, technologically, ecologically? What externalities do alternative fuels have? What are the implications of projected fossil fuel use? What are possible ways to reduce such use and/or its impacts? Can countries with limited access to modern energy technologies and services and cheap supplies develop? Can alternative energy reduce modern on fossil fuel? society’s dependence What is the role for renewables? What information and analysis can you trust to provide a level of objectivity? If national interests drive foreign policy and international treaty law, when it comes to controlling CO2 emissions, what are the implications for the US, EU, Japan, India, Russia, China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, France, Germany, Poland, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, and Georgia ? Required reading: Sustainability: A History, Jeremy L. Caradonna, Oxford, 2015. Chapters 5-6 (Note: Caradonna integrates the rise of political awareness of energy’s relevance to sustainability throughout his text.) Diane Dumanoski, The End of the Long Summer, 2009, Planetary “The Era,” Chapter 2, pp. 11-32 (Sept. 27) as Eric Zencey , Is Sustainability Still Possible? “Energy Master Resource,” Worldwatch Institute, Island Press, 2013. Chap. 7, pp. 73-83 (Sept. 27) Martin Wolf, Financial Times, will be “Fossil Fuel Power Plants Stranded,” April 6, 2016 (Oct. 4) Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, Island Press, Shakuntala Makhijani and “Renewable Energy’s Natural Resource Impacts,” Alexander Ochs, Chapture. 8 , 2013. pp. 84-98 (Oct. 4) by Ed Crooks and Kiran Stacey, Financial Times Big to “From Black Green,” Read, Energy, June 29, 2016 (OCT. 4) Transnational Concerns & International Legal Frameworks (Oct.11) TREATY PAPER DUE OCT. 11
Can you identify unaccounted costs or externalities of fossil fuel politically, socially, technologically, ecologically? What externalities do alternative fuels have? What are the implications of projected fossil fuel use? What are possible ways to reduce such use and/or its impacts? Can countries with limited access to modern energy technologies and services and cheap supplies develop? Can alternative energy reduce modern society’s dependence on fossil fuel? What is the role for renewables? What information and analysis can you trust to provide a level of objectivity? If national interests drive foreign policy and international treaty law, when it comes to controlling CO2 emissions, what are the implications for the US, EU, Japan, India, Russia, China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, France, Germany, Poland, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, and Georgia ? Required reading: Sustainability: A History, Jeremy L. Caradonna, Oxford, 2015. Chapters 5-6 (Note: Caradonna integrates the rise of political awareness of energy’s relevance to sustainability throughout his text.) “The Planetary Era,” Diane Dumanoski, The End of the Long Summer, 2009, Chapter 2, pp. 11-32 (Sept. 27) “Energy as Master Resource,” Eric Zencey , Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, Island Press, 2013. Chap. 7, pp. 73-83 (Sept. 27) “Fossil Fuel Power Plants will be Stranded,” Martin Wolf, Financial Times, April 6, 2016 (Oct. 4) Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, Island Press, “Renewable Energy’s Natural Resource Impacts,” Shakuntala Makhijani and Alexander Ochs, Chapture. 8 , 2013. pp. 84-98 (Oct. 4) “From Black to Green,” by Ed Crooks and Kiran Stacey, Financial Times Big Read, Energy, June 29, 2016 (OCT. 4) Transnational Concerns & International Legal Frameworks (Oct.11) TREATY PAPER DUE OCT. 11