On the grid : climate change and the utopia of green energy / Michael Warner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Michael, 1958- Author.

Series:

Berkeley Tanner lectures

The Berkeley Tanner lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renewable energy sources.

Climate change mitigation.

Environmental protection--Citizen participation.

Environmental protection.

Energy consumption.

Energy policy.

Renewable Energy.

Clean energy.

Clean energy industries.

Electric power distribution--Environmental aspects.

Environmental ethics.

Medical Subjects:

Renewable Energy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"On the Grid raises critical questions about the utopia of green energy that currently guides so many responses to climate change. Environmental thought increasingly centers on infrastructure, and in particular the goal of a decarbonized electrical grid. "Electrify everything" is the new mantra. The aim is unlimited energy use, but without greenhouse gas emissions. What kind of citizen consumer is imagined when climate action takes the form of a green grid? What is the relation between means and ends? How does infrastructural shift matter for the way we think about environmental ethics and politics? What happens, for example, to the older ethical mantra of "reduce, re-use, recycle"? What other features of the environmentalist tradition now need revision? By what process--and with what kind of agency--is the environmental future being built around and within us? How might conversations about the environment recognize the new reality? On the Grid seeks to generate such questionings in part by reviewing the cultural and political history that has made grid infrastructure a central but usually unrecognized dimension of government, as well as a structuring framework of the modern"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

On the grid: Climate change and the utopia of green energy / Michael Warner and Michael Lucey

Preface / Michael Warner

Lecture I On the grid / Michael Warner

Lecture II Off the grid / Michael Warner

Commentaries / Michael Warner and Michael Lucey

Escaping gridlock / Dale Jamieson

Can there be a politics of infrastructure? / Jedediah Britton-Purdy

Grid, power, poetry / Anahid Nersessian

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed November 19, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version: Warner, Michael, 1958- On the grid.

ISBN:

9780197696255

0197696252

9780197696279

0197696279

OCLC:

1542785827

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license