Power Shift

Imre Szeman is director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability and professor of human geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of books such as On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy and Futures of the Sun. Jennifer Wenzel is professor in the department of English and comparative literature and the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. Her books include The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature and Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anti-colonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond.

List of Figures Foreword David E. Nye How to Use This Book Introduction Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel 2040 What genre will the future be? Philomena Polefrone Abandoned Who is tending to the present? Liz Harmer Action What becomes possible when climate action fails? Stephen Collis Africa Energy for whom and at what cost? Erin Dean and Kristin D. Phillips Air Conditioning Has air conditioning become a technology of citizenship? Anushree Gupta and Aalok Khandekar Airplane Why might we still need to fly? Parke Wilde Alberta How many nuclear bombs does it take to develop an oil field? Jeremy J. Schmidt Animals How do animals organize? Jaimey Hamilton Faris Art How are art and energy related? Carolyn Fornoff Autonomy Why do we want energy autonomy? Darin Barney Bankrupt Is bankruptcy the crisis we need? Caleb Wellum Battery Can batteries foster a radically just energy transition? Isaac Thornley Behavior Why do appeals to values usually fail to change behavior? Stephane La Branche Black What are the Black politics of energy? Walter Gordon Blockade Why are blockades an essential form of climate action? Joshua Clover, Deedee Chao, and Emily Rich Carbon Management Is carbon management a moral imperative or a moral hazard? Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow Civil Disobedience What rules must be broken to build a better world? Alicia Massie Class Why is climate change a class issue? Valerie Uher Clean What does clean energy really mean? Goekce Guenel Commons What forms of governance could solve the tragedy of the commons? Alfonso Giuliani Communication What are effective strategies for climate communication? Andrew Revkin Community Is it still possible to trust other people? Darren Fleet Coronavirus What does the coronavirus reveal about the politics of climate crisis? Helen Petrovsky Corporation Will an energy transition help fossil fuel companies? Cameron Hu Cuba What can Cuba teach us about climate action? Andrew Pendakis Cycling Is cycling a solution? Stacey Balkan Decolonization What can OPEC teach us about the link between energy and decolonization? Sanaz Sohrabi Degrowth Is degrowth inevitable? Dominic Boyer Democracy To save the planet, do we need more democracy, or less? Robert Danisch Design What does design make possible? Keller Easterling Development Can development be green? Siddharth Sareen Digital How does the digital reshape the material realm? Shane Denson Documentary Why is uncertainty useful? Thomas Pringle Economy Is economic expertise important? Kylie Benton-Connell Education How should energy educators respond to youth climate activism? Carrie Karsgaard Electricity How does electricity organize society? Daniela Russ Evidence How is climate evidence used? James Wilt Expert What counts as effective climate expertise? Shane Gunster Extinction Is there a relation between energy and extinction? Ashley Dawson Family What is the environmental future of the family? Eva-Lynn Jagoe Farm Whose muscles power our food system? Emily Pawley Finance Can we create an economy based on care? Max Haiven Fire/Bushfire What can we learn from fire? Meg Samuelson Gaslighting How has gaslighting circumscribed our environmental imagination? Grace Franklin Gender Why is gender important to energy transition? Petra Tschakert Geoengineering Is geoengineering inevitable? Drew Pendergrass Globalization How does energy matter to globalization? Tanner Mirrlees Green New Deal Will the Green New Deal save us from extinction? Todd Dufresne Greta Why is intersectional agility Greta Thunberg's rhetorical superpower? Sheena Wilson Habit What kinds of friction can disrupt the status quo? Rhys Williams India Can there be a just transition in India? Swaralipi Nandi Indigenous How are Indigenous and extraction related? Deena Rymhs Indigenous Activism What is the power of radical care? Amber Hickey Industrial Revolution What does a focus on jobs mean for energy transition? Cara Daggett IPCC What can the IPCC tell us about the relationship between knowledge and action? Marcela da Silveira Feital and Jessica O'Reilly Japan Why do fears of energy scarcity obstruct energy transition? Hiroki Shin Justice What kind of justice is energy justice? Pauline Destree and Sarah O'Brien Keep It in the Ground How can we build momentum to keep fossil fuels in the ground? Angela Carter Law How can we change the law to prevent the climate crisis? Michael B. Gerrard Lifestyle Are lifestyle changes a waste of time? Mark Simpson Local How do local climate politics work best? Brian Cozen and Danielle Endres Mining Why are the ways that we imagine mining important? Gianfranco Selgas Music How are listening and energy related? Sherry Lee and Emily MacCallum Nationalism What is the impact of transition on nationalism? Zeynep Oguz Natural Gas Can natural gas be made visible, or viable? John Szabo Neoextractivism What comes after neoextractivism? Donald V. Kingsbury Net Zero Do we really want to live in a net-zero world? Mijin Cha Nonlinear Can nonlinear imaginative practices help us survive nonlinear catastrophes? Katy Didden Normal What will be normal after fossil fuels? Stephanie LeMenager North Dakota How does oil extraction reshape space and time? Kyle Conway Online When we are online, what lines are we on? Anne Pasek Organize Can the master's tools dismantle the master's house? Zainab Ashraf, Rachel Krueger, Guy Brodsky, Lesley Johnston, and Joy Hutchinson Paris Agreement Does the Paris Agreement still matter? Amy Janzwood Permafrost What do you do when the ground starts to melt beneath your feet? Brigt Dale Pipeline Why is opposition to pipelines important? Kai Bosworth Planet What happens to politics on an increasingly unlivable planet? Leah Aronowsky Populism What can energy politics learn from populism? Rodrigo Nunes Protest Why is protection more important than protest in Indigenous struggles? Kimberly Skye Richards Renewable What do renewables renew? Marianna Dudley Resource Can waste serve as a resource for energy transition? Kesha Fevrier and Anna Zalik Retrofit What does it mean to breathe life into buildings? Fallon Samuels Aidoo and Daniel A. Barber Sabotage Can sabotage ever be more than a romantic gesture? Ted Hamilton Scale What if scale were about equity rather than magnitude? Cymene Howe Scales What can the human voice tell us about the scale of climate change? Lisa Moore Scenario Planning Is the future a waste of time? Josefin Wangel Science Do scientists believe that science matters? Adam Sobel Settler Colonialism How can modern energy systems be indigenized? S. Awasis Shipping What would actual free shipping look like? Christiaan De Beukelaer Solar Farm Can solar farms foster energy justice, instead of obstructing it? Dustin Mulvaney Solidarity How can solidarity catalyze energy democracy? Ana Isabel Baptista Sport Can sport be untangled from oil? Graeme Macdonald Storytelling What can storytelling really do? Misty Matthews-Roper Sustainability Does sustainability's popularity indicate the failure of environmentalism? Stephanie Foote Trans- What is trans- about transition? Emerson Cram Transitions If transition is inevitable, will it be just? Matthew S. Henry Treaty How can treaties help states transition away from fossil fuels? Carlos Larrea, Bhushan Tuladhar, and Mohamed Adow Vegan What does transition look like on your plate? Allisa Ali and Jordan B. Kinder Waste What is at stake in using waste for energy? Aarti Latkar and Aalok Khandekar Water How can microbe metabolism foster sustainable infrastructures? Melody Jue Wind What color is the wind? David McDermott Hughes Youth Why is youth culture indispensable to energy transition? Derek Gladwin Acknowledgments Contributors Alternative Index

"We urgently need Power Shift if we are to find our way forward toward a decarbonized future." -David E. Nye, author of Seven Sublimes and Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies