On the grid : climate change and the utopia of green energy /
"On the Grid raises critical questions about the utopia of green energy that currently guides so many responses to climate change. Environmental thought increasingly centers on infrastructure, and in particular the goal of a decarbonized electrical grid. "Electrify everything" is the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Berkeley Tanner lectures.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "On the Grid raises critical questions about the utopia of green energy that currently guides so many responses to climate change. Environmental thought increasingly centers on infrastructure, and in particular the goal of a decarbonized electrical grid. "Electrify everything" is the new mantra. The aim is unlimited energy use, but without greenhouse gas emissions. What kind of citizen consumer is imagined when climate action takes the form of a green grid? What is the relation between means and ends? How does infrastructural shift matter for the way we think about environmental ethics and politics? What happens, for example, to the older ethical mantra of "reduce, re-use, recycle"? What other features of the environmentalist tradition now need revision? By what process--and with what kind of agency--is the environmental future being built around and within us? How might conversations about the environment recognize the new reality? On the Grid seeks to generate such questionings in part by reviewing the cultural and political history that has made grid infrastructure a central but usually unrecognized dimension of government, as well as a structuring framework of the modern"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780197696255 0197696252 9780197696279 0197696279 |