Author : Nick King
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031464478
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Future Energy Options from a Systems Perspective by : Nick King
Download or read book Future Energy Options from a Systems Perspective written by Nick King and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of energy and its unique role to date as one of the fundamental enabling and controlling factors in human development and progress at the scale of global civilization, and how it will be fundamental to the type of future that collective humanity is likely to experience. The first section provides a contextual overview of energy and human civilization through a chronological description of how human energy use has evolved over time and led to the current ‘energy bind’. The second section explores what this energy bind might mean for our future energy choices when trying to meet the various challenges of dwindling resources, costs, and climate change, through exploration of three broad systems-based scenarios for the human ‘energy future’. The final section draws conclusions as to which scenario is most achievable and desirable, and what this might mean for longer-term human prospects.