How Much and What Kind of Energy Does Humanity Need?

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Notes

¹ http://climateactiontracker.org/news/224/indcs-lower-projected-warming-to-2.7c-significant-progress-but-still-above-2c-.html

² Trade Unions for Energy Democracy: http://unionsforenergydemocracy.org/. See also Schwartzman 2015b, 2016b.

³ “South Africa also hosts the world's two largest coal-fired power stations now under construction, with no objection by Pretoria's environment minister, Edna Molewa. She regularly approves increased (highly-subsidized) coal burning and exports, vast fracking, offshore-oil drilling, exemptions from pollution regulation, emissions-intensive corporate farming and fast-worsening suburban sprawl” (Bond 2015).

⁴ http://www.oilwatch.org/en/keep- the-oil-in-the-soil/679-it-is-time-to-create-annex-0

⁵ The carbon sequestration flux is the net transfer per unit time of carbon from the atmosphere to the soil and crust.

⁶ Greenhouse forcings have their origins in the levels of gases that have two properties in common – transparency to visible light, absorption of infrared light (heat).

⁷ See Marx ([1857–61], 2015), 612ff.