{"title":"Burning biomass: A Drax-tic idea, and bad for environmental justice","authors":"S. Koester","doi":"10.1080/00963402.2022.2062939","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The world is in a scramble for energy, with governments looking at every possible source to fulfill their energy needs. Concerns about environmental justice, biodiversity, and the protection of our natural resources are at risk of being shunted aside. And while energy sources such as biomass are being marketed as lower-carbon alternatives, they must be looked at extra closely to make sure that the cure is not worse than the disease – especially in communities of color.","PeriodicalId":46802,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists","volume":"78 1","pages":"148 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.2022.2062939","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT The world is in a scramble for energy, with governments looking at every possible source to fulfill their energy needs. Concerns about environmental justice, biodiversity, and the protection of our natural resources are at risk of being shunted aside. And while energy sources such as biomass are being marketed as lower-carbon alternatives, they must be looked at extra closely to make sure that the cure is not worse than the disease – especially in communities of color.