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The Need for Affordable and Clean Energy – Episode 75 – The Oxford Comment

August 30, 2022The Oxford Commentclimate change, energy policy, environmentalism, fossil fuels, geothermal energy, martin pasqualetti, nonrenewable energy, nuclear energy, oil drilling, paul meier, renewable energy, solar energy, the changing energy mix, The Oxford Comment, the thread of energy, wind energyoxfordacademic

High gas prices. Nuclear reactors closed forever. The growth of the electric car industry. Record-breaking temperatures, and Europe’s Dependence on Russian Natural Gas. There has been no shortage in energy-related news stories this summer, and we know that they are not going to go away any time soon.

On today’s episode of The Oxford Comment, we spoke with Martin J. Pasqualetti, Professor of Geography at Arizona State University and author of The Thread of Energy, and Paul F. Meier, an independent clean fuels consultant and author of The Changing Energy Mix: A Systematic Comparison of Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy, on the need for affordable and clean energy (which is one of the UN’s sustainable development goals), the history of energy in the United States, and the dire implications of not changing our energy habits.

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Environmental Law – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 49

May 19, 2022The Very Short Introductions Podcastelizabeth fisher, environmental law, environmentalism, oil spills, the very short introductions podcastoxfordacademic

In this episode, Elizabeth Fisher introduces environmental law, a wide-ranging area of law that can operate at both a local and global level and is an area of complexity and hard-fought cases.

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Elizabeth Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law in the Faculty of Law and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She has won awards for both her teaching and her scholarship, and is General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law.

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Environmental Histories and Potential Futures – Episode 60 – The Oxford Comment

April 27, 2021The Oxford Comment, The Oxford Commentclimate change, environmental future, environmental history, environmentalism, erin mauldin, future studies, jennifer gidley, The Oxford Commentoxfordacademic

The academic fields of both environmental history and future studies originated in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s during the rise of the mainstream environmental movement. On today’s episode of The Oxford Comment, we are joined by environmental historian Erin Stewart Mauldin, author Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South, and Jennifer Gidley, the past president of the World Futures Studies and author of The Future: A Very Short Introduction, to learn more about how these two areas of study look at our relationship with the environment and how these valuable perspectives can engage, and inform, our environmental understanding.

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Executive Producer: Steven Filippi
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Host: Julia Baker
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