Climate of Contempt
How to Rescue the U.S. Energy Transition from Voter Partisanship
1st Edition
Published on 6. August 2024
400 pages
978-0-231-56155-6 (ISBN)
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Climate of Contempt offers a voter-centric, bottom-up explanation of national climate and energy politics, one that pinpoints bitter partisanship as the key impediment to transitioning to a net zero carbon future.
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David B. Spence is the Rex G. Baker Chair in Natural Resources Law in the School of Law and professor of business, government, and society in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses in energy and environmental regulation. He is a coauthor of a leading casebook, Energy, Economics, and the Environment.
Content
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Evolution of the Energy-Regulatory State
1. Republican Moments and the Creation of the Energy-Regulatory State
2. Ideological Conservatism and Deregulation
3. Partisan Tribalism and Climate Policy
Part II: Complexity, Centrifugal Forces, and the Energy Transition
4. The Propaganda Machine
5. Facing Energy-Transition Trade-offs
6. Hope and Conversation
Notes
References
Index
List of Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Evolution of the Energy-Regulatory State
1. Republican Moments and the Creation of the Energy-Regulatory State
2. Ideological Conservatism and Deregulation
3. Partisan Tribalism and Climate Policy
Part II: Complexity, Centrifugal Forces, and the Energy Transition
4. The Propaganda Machine
5. Facing Energy-Transition Trade-offs
6. Hope and Conversation
Notes
References
Index
