THE GOLDEN AGE of ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Pre Reagan Era

Dominance of Green Groups in US
Senate
Neoliberal Policies and Green Groups
Radical or Supportive
SHOP GREEN
Frack Gas
Trade Pollution
ETS
Kyoto Protocol
Carbon Cowboys
Authors Arguments
Some green groups had supported frack gas before the
development in renewable energy technologies.
Therefore renewable energy technologies has
developed really fast. At this point its a waste of time
and resources to support frack gas. Also it turns away
the attention of investors from renewable energy to
frack gas.
 Consumerism is a serious problem that whole society
have to cope with but some of green groups attitudes
decrease the problems severity. Instead of improve
consumerism, green groups should fight with
consumerism itself.
EVALUATION
Evaluation criteria used in studies conducted on energy
issues. These are technical (efficiency, primary energy ratio,
safety, reliability, maturity, etc.); economical (investment
cost, operation and maintenance cost, fuel cost, net present
value, payback period, service life, equivalent annual cost,
etc.); environmental (CO2 emission, NOx emission, SO2
emission, particles emission, land use, noise, etc.); social
(social acceptability, job creation, social benefits, etc.)
(Kaya and Kahraman, 2010).
Table 1. List of evaluation criteria for sustainable
energy planning
(Wang et al., 2006;Kaya and
Kahraman 2010; Lior, 2010).
The results of the multi-criteria
decision analyses suggest that
the wind energy is the best
renewable energy alternative.
The ranking of the other
alternatives in descending
order is determined as biomass,
geothermal, solar and
hydropower. Also, the
evaluation of criteria indicates
that environmental effects are
more important in this problem
of technology selection.
CONCLUSION
Most of the Green Groups have tried to soothe Big
Companies and promote neoliberal climate policies
such as ETS, shopping green, fracking for gas.This has
been a great burden to environmental movement. The
Green Groups should have supported the real solutions
instead of being puppets of Big Companies. Therefore
some groups are tracking the right path.
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Klein, N. (2014). This changes everything: capitalism
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