The Best Energy Policy eBooks of All Time

The Case for Nukes is a unique book. In it, world-renowned nuclear and aerospace engineer. Dr. Robert Zubrin explains how nuclear power works and how much it has to offer humanity. He. debunks the toxic falsehoods that have been spread to dissuade us from using it by variously the. ignorant, the fearful, the fanatical, and by cynical political operatives bought and paid for by. competing interests. He tells about revolutionary developments in the field, including new. reactor types that can be cheaply mass produced, that cannot be made to melt down no matter.

how hard their operators try, that use a new fuel called thorium far more plentiful than uranium,. and still more advanced systems, employing thermonuclear fusion - the power that lights the sun. - to extract more energy from a gallon of water than can be obtained from 300 gallons of. gasoline. He tells about the bold entrepreneurs - a totally different breed from the government. officials who created the existing types of nuclear reactors - who are leading this revolution in. power technology. But there are broader issues involved in the nuclear debate than technology alone, and Zubrin. is not shy about addressing them. He makes clear the critical difference between practical. environmentalism, which seeks to improve the environment for the benefit of humanity, and. ideological environmentalism, which seeks to use instances of human insult to natural. environment as evidence for a prosecutorial case against human liberty. He shows how the latter. school of thought is wrong, not only with respect to the catastrophic harm it would do to. humanity, but to nature as well. He also exposes the masters of mercenary environmentalism,. who deploy troops of dupes to shut down companies or whole industries in order to eliminate. competition in return for being suitably rewarded by the beneficiaries of such efforts. He shows. that when it comes to environmental improvement, freedom is not the problem; freedom is the. solution. He makes clear both the possibility and necessity of a nuclear-power-enabled. revolution in the human condition by putting it in a broader historical context of the overall process of development of civilization, whereby new technologies create new resources and new knowledge, which in turn make possible still more technological advance. Finally, Zubrin brings all this to bear to address the greatest threat facing humanity today. - which is the possibility that we will turn on each other, as we did in the 20 th century, under the. spell of the false idea that resources are finite. Only in a world of unlimited resources can all men and women be brothers and sisters. Only in a world of freedom can resources be unlimited. That is the world we can, and must, create. In The Case for Nukes, Zubrin shows us how.

An urgent and definitive collection of essays from leaders and experts championing the Green New Deal—and a detailed playbook for how we can win it—including contributions by leading activists and progressive writers like Varshini Prakash, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Bill McKibben, Rev William Barber II, and more. In October 2018, scientists warned that we have less than 12 years left to transform our economy away from fossil fuels, or face catastrophic climate change. At that moment, there was no plan in the US to decarbonize our economy that fast.

Less than two years later, every major Democratic presidential candidate has embraced the vision of the Green New Deal—a rapid, vast transformation of our economy to avert climate catastrophe while securing economic and racial justice for all. What happened? A new generation of leaders confronted the political establishment in Washington DC with a simple message: the climate crisis is here, and the Green New Deal is our last, best hope for a livable future. Now comes the hard part: turning that vision into the law of the land. In Winning a Green New Deal, leading youth activists, journalists, and policymakers explain why we need a transformative agenda to avert climate catastrophe, and how our movement can organize to win. Featuring essays by Varshini Prakash, cofounder of Sunrise Movement; Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Green New Deal policy architect; Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize–winning economist; Bill McKibben, internationally renowned environmentalist; Mary Kay Henry, the President of the Service Employees International Union, and others we’ll learn why the climate crisis cannot be solved unless we also confront inequality and racism, how movements can redefine what’s politically possible and overcome the opposition of fossil fuel billionaires, and how a Green New Deal will build a just and thriving economy for all of us. For anyone looking to understand the movement for a Green New Deal, and join the fight for a livable future, there is no resource as clear and practical as Winning the Green New Deal.

A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020. Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society. “A master class on how the world works.” —NPR. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future. The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. Out of this tumult is emerging a new map of energy and geopolitics.

The “shale revolution” in oil and gas has transformed the American economy, ending the “era of shortage” but introducing a turbulent new era. Almost overnight, the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse. Yet concern about energy's role in climate change is challenging the global economy and way of life, accelerating a second energy revolution in the search for a low-carbon future. All of this has been made starker and more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic dark age that it has wrought. World politics is being upended, as a new cold war develops between the United States and China, and the rivalry grows more dangerous with Russia, which is pivoting east toward Beijing. Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping are converging both on energy and on challenging American leadership, as China projects its power and influence in all directions. The South China Sea, claimed by China and the world's most critical trade route, could become the arena where the United States and China directly collide. The map of the Middle East, which was laid down after World War I, is being challenged by jihadists, revolutionary Iran, ethnic and religious clashes, and restive populations. But the region has also been shocked by the two recent oil price collapses--and by the very question of oil's future in the rest of this century. A master storyteller and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin takes the reader on an utterly riveting and timely journey across the world's new map. He illuminates the great energy and geopolitical questions in an era of rising political turbulence and points to the profound challenges that lie ahead.