Reading about the resistance dilemma

2021-11-05

in Books and literature, Canada, Economics, PhD thesis, Politics, The environment, Writing

Today I received and began reading George Hoberg’s new book: The Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis.

The usefulness is threefold. It speaks directly to my concern about how the environmentalist focus on resistance isn’t a great match with building a global energy system that will control climate change. It references much of the same literature as my dissertation, so it provides a useful opportunity to check that I haven’t missed anything major. Finally, it’s an example of a complete, recent, and successful piece of Canadian academic writing on the environment and thus a model for the thesis. It’s even about 300 pages, though a lot more fits on a published book page than a 1.5-spaced Microsoft Word page in the U of T dissertation template.

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. November 7, 2021 at 9:15 pm

As Demand for Green Energy Grows, Solar Farms Face Local Resistance

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/11/06/0340217/as-demand-for-green-energy-grows-solar-farms-face-local-resistance

As Demand for Green Energy Grows, Solar Farms Face Local Resistance

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/business/solar-farms-resistance.html

. January 30, 2023 at 12:29 pm

The permitting process has become the favoured vehicle by which people can try to block projects they don’t like. Legal challenges to proposed developments often revolve around threats to endangered species. In Wyoming, for example, environmentalists worry that wind farms and transmission lines will harm sage-grouse habitat. Native American tribes sue to stop officials from approving energy projects on land sacred to them. A recent study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit) identified 53 big wind, solar and geothermal projects that were delayed or blocked between 2008 and 2021. A third of them faced permitting difficulties. nepa challenges make up the largest proportion of federal climate-change litigation in America, according to a database kept by Columbia University.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/01/29/america-needs-a-new-environmentalism

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