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Bad Energy The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future | 2.23 MB

Title: Bad Energy The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future
Author: Joshua Frank
Category: Social Science, Public Policy, Political Science, Economic Conditions
Language: English | 299 Pages | ISBN: 9798888906286


Description:
Green energy and renewables are heralded as the only way to mitigate our ever-worsening ecological crisis. But that's not the whole story.

In Bad Energy, award-winning journalist Joshua Frank argues that the green energy transition is driven not by an effort to save the planet but by profit incentives. We must stop burning fossil fuels if we have any hope of saving the planet, but the significant, haphazard expansion of green energy in recent years-from large solar projects to wind energy to mining for renewables-has destroyed communities and ecosystems. And worse, renewables simply cannot match our ever-expanding demand for energy, driven in no small part by the rapid proliferation of data centers in the world's wealthiest nations.

Taking readers from copper mines in Montana and Bolivia to wind farms in Wyoming to the geopolitical battle over deep-sea mining in the South Pacific, Bad Energy offers a stark assessment of...