Survival Governance: Energy and Climate in the Chinese Century,Used

Survival Governance: Energy and Climate in the Chinese Century,Used

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To deal with the climate crisis we need a new paradigm of technological and social development aimed at the restoration of ecological systemsthe biodigital energy paradigmand China is the world power best positioned to lead this change.The climate and energy crisis requires a strong state to change the direction, speed, and scale of innovation in world capitalism. There are only a few possible contenders for catalyzing this governance of survival: China, the European Union, India, and the United States. While China is an improbable leaderand in fact the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gassesPeter Drahos explains in Survival Governance why this authoritarian state is actually more likely to implement systemic change swiftly and effectively than any other power. Drawing on more than 250 interviews, carried out in 17 countriesincluding the world's four largest carbon emittersDrahos shows what China is doing to make its vast urban network sustainable and why all states must work toward a "biodigital energy paradigm" based on a globalized, citybased network of innovation.As Drahos explains, America is incapable of reducing the power of its fossil fuel industry. For its part, the European Union's approach is too incremental and slowed by complex internal negotiations to address a crisis that demands a rapid response. India's capacity to be a global leader on energy innovation is questionable. To be sure, China faces hurdles too. Its coalbased industrial system is enormous, and the US, worried about losing technological superiority, is trying to slow China's development. Even so, China is currently urbanizing innovation on a historically unprecedented scale, building ecocities, hydrogen cities, forest cities, and sponge cities (designed to cope with flooding). This has the potential to move cities into a new relationship with their surrounding ecosystems. Chinagiven the size of its economy and the central government's ability to dictate thoroughgoing policy changeis, despite all of its flaws, presently our best hope for implementing the sort of policy overhaul that can begin to slow climate change.

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