| ISBN： | 9789813276390 hardcover : |
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| 编目源： | UKMGB UKMGB YDX OCLCO CBY NTD YDX |
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| 语种代码： | eng |
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| 个人名称： | Fanchi, John R., |
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| 题名： | The Goldilocks policy : the basis for a grand energy bargain / Edited by John R. Fanchi. |
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| 出版发行项： | Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing, [2019] |
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| 载体形态： | xii, 215 p. : color ill., color maps ; 23 cm. |
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| 书目附注： | Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-208) and index (p. 209-215) |
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| 格式化内容附注： | Preface. Part 1 Introduction : What is energy -- How much energy do we consume? -- Why should we care about energy? -- Is our use of energy affecting the climate? -- SHould we be concerned about our supply of energy? Part 2 Is the climate change debate settled? : Is our climate changing? -- What is affecting the atmosphere? -- Are we changing the atmosphere? -- Has climate change occurred before? The long view -- What might be the consequences of anthropogenic climate change? -- How can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions? -- Is the climate change debate settled? : Population growth ; IPCC versus NIPCC: is this the debate? ; COP21: the Paris climate meeting ; The oil and gas climate initiative. Part 3 Roadmap to a sustainable energy mix : Trend toward decarbonization -- Competing energy visions -- how can we transition to a sustainable energy mix? : John Hofmeister and regulation ; Vaclav Smil and the transition from fossil fuels to renewables ; Daniel Yergin and the quest for change -- Goldilocks policy for energy transition : Historical basis for duration of energy transitions ; Temperature change forecast ; The Goldilocks policy. Part 4 Obstacles to adopting the Goldilocks policy : Conventional political obstacles : Typical forms of government ; Government and energy ; Mass media -- Role of geopolitics : Clash of civilizations ; Clash over resources ; energy interdependence -- The political roots of socialist environmentalism : Is modern environmentalism an attempt to impose socialism? ; Dialectical materialism ; The Marxist view of property ; The Marxist view of natural resources ; The Marxist view of environmentalism goes national ; The Fabian Society: evolutionary rather than revolutionary ; The Marxist view of environmentalism goes global -- Oligarchic political obstacles : Quigley's plutocracy model ; The bureaucratic ruling class model -- Fabian socialism as a political obstacle : The Fabian Society ; Fabian globalism -- Globalism as a political obstacle : World War I and The Inquiry ; Walter Lippmann's brush with Fabian socialism ; Wilson's 14 Points and the League of Nations -- Environmentalism and the United States -- Maurice Strong and global socialist environmentalism -- International banking and globalization -- Funding of globalization by the privileged minority : Amassing the Rockefeller fortune ; The Rockefeller Foundation ; International banker David Rockefeller -- Picking up the environmental baton: Barak Obama. Part 5 What is the future of energy? : Can the obstacles be overcome? : Competing economic visions ; Global feudalism -- Selecting our energy future. Appendix A: The Goldilocks story -- Appendix B: The Earth Charter -- References -- Index. |
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