Renewable Energy International Perspectives on Sustainability
This book bringing together leading researchers in the field of renewable energy to discuss sustainability on a broad scale and to examine the status quo of renewable energy industry development in a global context. The volume starts with the European Uni
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Renewable Energy
Dmitry Kurochkin · Elena V. Shabliy · Ekundayo Shittu Editors
Renewable Energy International Perspectives on Sustainability
Editors Dmitry Kurochkin Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA
Elena V. Shabliy Columbia University New York, NY, USA
Ekundayo Shittu George Washington University Washington, DC, USA
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Foreword
Is another world possible? This is the question more and more humans are asking themselves in these days of what is now called the Anthropocene, that is, an era where humans not solely because of their numbers but because of their actions (those of some more than of others) are weighing on the earth. Through their actions, humans risk to reach a tipping point where new systems will come about and life on earth as we have known it will be gravely endangered, if not threatened with disappearance. We are approaching the end of an epoch that did not begin, but was intensified, with the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century that thrived on programmatic domination of humans and nature in concert with widespread colonial expansion. Industrial capitalism was made possible with new modes of producing and implementing energy, that is, with technologies (such as the steam engine) based on the burning of fossil fuels. With its beginnings in Europe and in the United States, industrial capitalism rapidly spread through the w
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