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The Postmodern Greenhouse: Creating Virtual Carbon Reductions From Business-as-Usual Energy Politics

John Byrne

Leigh Glover

Gerard Alleng

Vernese Inniss

Yu-Mi Mun

Young-Doo Wang

Center for Energy and Environmental Policy University of Delaware

Climate change presents a fundamental challenge to the current global energy regime. Under the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international community is developing the architecture of a policy response. Three serious flaws are examined: (a) the potential sacrifice of small island states, (b) the use of market-based policy measures to commodify the atmospheric commons, and (c) the substitution of carbon sequestration for meaningful reductions in energy use. The authors’ analysis of the politics of climate change, based on these issues, suggests a new understanding of ecology is emerging—what they term postmodern ecology—in which a global environmental crisis is risked to secure the future of the world energy regime. An alternative, based on principles of sustainability and equity, is proposed that would require abandoning the global energy status quo.

Key Words: Climate change • energy system • equity • sustainability • ecological justice

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 21, No. 6, 443-455 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/027046760102100603
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