Super Polluters : : Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions /

Super Polluters : : Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions / / Andrew Jorgenson, Don Grant, Wesley Longhofer.

Power plants are essential to achieving the standard of living that modern societies demand and the social and economic infrastructure on which they depend. Yet their indispensability has allowed them to evade responsibility for their vast carbon emissions. Fossil-fueled power plants are the single...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Grant, Don,
Jorgenson, Andrew,
Longhofer, Wesley,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Society and the Environment
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Who Is Responsible for This Mess?: The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants
  • 2. Cleaning Up Their Act: Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants
  • 3. Recipes for Disaster: How Social Structures Interact to Make Environmentally Destructive Plants Even More So
  • 4. A Win-Win Solution?: The Paradoxical Effects of Efficiency on Plants’ CO2 Emissions
  • 5. Bottom-Up Strategies: The Effectiveness of Local Policies and Activism (with Ion Bogdan Vasi)
  • 6. Next Steps: Future Research and Action on Society’s Super Polluters
  • Appendixes
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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