The Postmodern Greenhouse: Creating Virtual Carbon Reductions From Business-as-Usual Energy Politics  

Oleh:

Byrne, John ; Glover, Leigh ; Alleng, Gerard ; Inniss, Vernese ; Yu-Mi, Mun ; Young-Doo, Wang

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society vol. 21 no. 6 (Dec. 2001), page 443-455.
Topik: Climate change; energy system; equity; sustainability; ecological justice
Fulltext: 443BSTS216.pdf (175.35KB)

Isi artikel

Climate change presents a fundamental challenge to the current global energy regime. Under the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international community is developing the architecture of a policy response. Three serious flaws are examined: (a) the potential sacrifice of small island states, (b) the use of market-based policy measures to commodify the atmospheric commons, and (c) the substitution of carbon sequestration for meaningful reductions in energy use. The authors’ analysis of the politics of climate change, based on these issues, suggests a new understanding of ecology is emerging—what they term postmodern ecology—in which a global environmental crisis is risked to secure the future of the world energy regime. An alternative, based on principles of sustainability and equity, is proposed that would require abandoning the global energy status quo.

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