John Mikler and I did not consider this application of technological innovation to climate change mitigation in our new edited book due out next month from Palgrave Macmillan titled Climate Innovation: Liberal Capitalism and Climate Change. Climate innovation for us is 'technological innovation designed to mitigate climate change'. We expect that the US and many other countries would prefer to use technological innovation to mitigate climate change so that they can avoid regulating economic and social activities that produce GHGs. A tech fix is preferred to a socioeconomic fix. Although the US is famed for its technological innovation, we and our contributors show that its liberal capitalist ideology and reliance on markets prevents the US from generating and disseminating climate innovations that, unlike NSA snooping, will actually contribute to solving the global problem. We further show that without improbable institutional changes the US will not generate significant climate innovation and will quite possibly end up importing from China much of the technology it needs to meet its 2020 and 2050 emissions goals,
Cheers, Neil Neil E. Harrison, Ph.D. Executive Director The Sustainable Development Institute (www.sd-institute.org - note: website is being moved and will be offline for a few hours) P.O. Box 423 Laramie, WY 82073 Author, Sustainable Capitalism and the Pursuit of Well-Being (Routledge 2014) more information at www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415662819 Co-Editor, Climate Innovation: Liberal Capitalism and Climate Change (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) more information at http://us.macmillan.com/climateinnovation/NeilEHarrison. Author, Constructing Sustainable Development (SUNY Press) Co-Editor, Science and Politics in the International Environment (Rowman and Littlefield) Editor, Complexity in World Politics (SUNY Press) Editor, National, Regional and Global Institutions, Infrastructures and Governance, Vol. 1, National and Regional Institutions and Infrastructures. London and Paris: EOLSS/UNESCO, 2008. (EOLSS/UNESCO) ---------------------------------------- From: "Paul Steinberg" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 1:58 PM To: "GEPED" <[email protected]> Subject: [gep-ed] spying on climate change GEPers may be interested in this news reported in The Guardian. It appears that the US has a unique interpretation of technological innovation to address climate change: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/30/snowden-nsa-spying-copenh agen-climate-talks Paul -- Paul F. Steinberg Malcolm Lewis Chair in Sustainability and Society Professor of Political Science & Environmental Policy Harvey Mudd College http://www.hmc.edu/steinberg Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, & the Arts 301 East Platt Boulevard Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA 91711 tel. 909-607-3840 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
