What will work : fighting climate change with renewable energy, not nuclear power / Kristin Shrader-Frechette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon)

Series:

Environmental ethics and science policy.

Environmental ethics and science policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Nuclear energy--Environmental aspects.

Nuclear energy.

Radioactive pollution of the atmosphere.

Renewable energy sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 350 pages).

Other Title:

Fighting climate change with renewable energy, not nuclear power

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or ""clean coal""-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, a respected environmental ethicist and scientist, makes a damning case that the only reason that debate about climate change continues is because fossil-fuel interests pay non-experts to confuse the public. She then builds a comprehensive case against the argument made by many that nuclear fission is a viable solution to the probl

Contents:

Why climate-change skeptics are wrong

Trimming the data on nuclear greenhouse emissions

Trimming the data on nuclear costs

Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island: flawed science and accident cover-up

Nuclear energy and environmental justice

The solution: using renewable energy, efficiency, and conservation to address climate change

Answering objections

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 18, 2012).

ISBN:

0-19-021518-6

1-283-34895-0

9786613348951

0-19-991178-9

0-19-979475-8

OCLC:

778338381