Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
war, political conditions, alternative fuel reform, United States, Brazil
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
Political Science
Abstract
Energy often plays a central role in both domestic and international conflict. Many scholars, activists and policymakers agree that the environmental, economic, and political costs of the United States’ self-proclaimed “addiction” to oil for its use as transportation fuel, among other functions, are unsustainable, even dangerous. They assert that the industrialized world’s dependence on fossil fuels is perpetuating global warming, leading us to a world wide economic “peak-oil” shock, and setting up massive geopolitical struggles across the globe. If the global community is to avert the potential calamity that a continued dependence on unsustainable energy may incur, a wide-scale effort towards the development of alternative energies must be made. If the US and other countries ever hope to successfully diversify their energy consumption away from unsustainable sources, it is essential to determine what the required political conditions for alternative energy reform are.
Recommended Citation
Clark, Logan Richards and Hawkins, Dr. Kirk
(2013)
"Waging the Moral Equivalent of War: The Political Conditions for Alternative Fuel Reform in the United States and Brazil,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 404.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/404