Pub Date : 2022-01-20DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199394807.003.0011
M. Pasqualetti
Chapter 11 compares the quality of lifestyles at different positions on the energy ladder, beginning with low-density non-commercial fuels such as dung, and rising to the pure energy form of electricity. How you live depends on where you are on the energy ladder. The chapter seeks to identify how energy availability and consumption tie to personal aspirations and desires, as well as fertility rates and standards of living. It compares energy consumption in the Global South with the Global North, while explaining how and why total energy demand in China has been rising so abruptly. Likewise, it predicts that renewable energy will substantially contribute to the aspirations of people in non-industrialized countries who continue to be challenged by inadequate access to quality energy supplies. The chapter asserts that having access to plentiful and affordable energy supplies is the key to how people live their lives, whether they are healthy and safe, and whether their hopes and goals are realistic or beyond their reach. Everything depends on where they are on the energy ladder.
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Chapter 12 points out that handling energy can be a dangerous business, whether producing it, consuming it, or living near any energy activity. It illustrates the risks and hazards that accompany the energy we use and ranks the dangers associated with various fossil fuels, nuclear fuels, and alternative fuels such as solar and wind. It simplifies the reasoning supporting the view that society should abandon the use of radioactive fuels to generate electricity, differentiates between the hazards of oil production and those of gas production, and identifies how the dangers of using fossil and nuclear fuels have changed over time. Black lung disease, explosions, blowouts, radiation poisoning, mine fires, subsidence, toxic waste spills, and many other hazards have always been a part of the energy picture. Will alternative energy lessen these concerns?
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Pub Date : 2022-01-20DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199394807.003.0008
M. Pasqualetti
Using examples from Crimea, Sudan, the Arctic Ocean, the Persian Gulf, Venezuela, and China, Chapter 8 argues that energy is the most common root cause of political instability. The chapter focuses an intense light on the importance of energy to political decisions as it incorporates the geopolitics of energy into the prospective transition to a more sustainable energy future. It discusses the logic behind the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, both when oil is plentiful and when oil imports are necessary. The geopolitics of energy can lead to war, as it did in the Persian Gulf and as it might trigger in the South China Sea. Chapter 8 explains the role of energy as a motivation for war and continued military engagement. It also describes how concerns about securing sufficient oil supplies have diminished the influence of embargoes as a geopolitical tool.
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