Canada is a well-endowed country that serves as an ideal model to lead the reader through the development of energy, resources, and society historically and into a post-carbon future. The book provides an historical perspective and describes the physical resource limitations, energy budgets, and climate realities that will determine the potential for any transition to renewable energy. Political and social realities, including jurisdiction and energy equality issues, are addressed. However, we cannot simply mandate or legislate policies according to social and political aspirations. Policies must comply with the realities of physical laws, such as the energy return on investment (EROI) for fossil-fuel based and renewable energy systems. EROI is discussed in both historical terms and in reference to the greater efficiencies inherent in a distributed generation, mainly electric, post-carbon society. Meyer explores the often misleading concepts and terms that have become embedded in society and tend to dictate our policy making, as well as the language, social and personal goals, and metrics that need to change before the physical transition can begin at the required scale. This book also reviews what nations have been doing thus far in terms of renewables, including the successes and failures in Canada and across the globe. Ontario's green energy fiasco, and a comparison of the different circumstances of Norway and Alberta, for example, are covered as part of the author's comparison of a wide range of countries. What are the achievements, plans, and problems that determine how well different countries are positioned to make "the transition"? The transition path is complex, and the tools we need to develop and the physical infrastructure investments we need to make, are daunting. At some point in time, Canada and Canadians, like all nations, will be living on 100% renewable energy. Whether the social and technological level that endures sees us travelling to the stars, or subsisting at a standard of living more similar to the pre-fossil fuel era, is far from certain.

The Covid-19 pandemic is a repeating biophysical shock yet one for which our current socio-economic structure was not prepared. Climate change, scarcity, depletion of natural resources, and the inevitable transition to renewable energy are one time events. Taken together, they present an existential threat to human society. This book is a guide to navigating these megatrends, which confront us now but whose consequences will unfold over decades. By presenting clear options on the path to a renewable energy future, this book gives readers a broad perspective as well as detailed, well-illustrated examples to weigh in making decisions which will secure stability and prosperity for their families, their communities and their nations.

Canada is a well-endowed country that serves as an ideal model to lead the reader through the development of energy, resources, and society historically and into a post-carbon future. The book provides an historical perspective and describes the physical resource limitations, energy budgets, and climate realities that will determine the potential for any transition to renewable energy. Political and social realities, including jurisdiction and energy equality issues, are addressed. However, we cannot simply mandate or legislate policies according to social and political aspirations. Policies must comply with the realities of physical laws, such as the energy return on investment (EROI) for fossil-fuel based and renewable energy systems. EROI is discussed in both historical terms and in reference to the greater efficiencies inherent in a distributed generation, mainly electric, post-carbon society. Meyer explores the often misleading concepts and terms that have become embedded in society and tend to dictate our policy making, as well as the language, social and personal goals, and metrics that need to change before the physical transition can begin at the required scale. This book also reviews what nations have been doing thus far in terms of renewables, including the successes and failures in Canada and across the globe. Ontario's green energy fiasco, and a comparison of the different circumstances of Norway and Alberta, for example, are covered as part of the author's comparison of a wide range of countries. What are the achievements, plans, and problems that determine how well different countries are positioned to make "the transition"? The transition path is complex, and the tools we need to develop and the physical infrastructure investments we need to make, are daunting. At some point in time, Canada and Canadians, like all nations, will be living on 100% renewable energy. Whether the social and technological level that endures sees us travelling to the stars, or subsisting at a standard of living more similar to the pre-fossil fuel era, is far from certain.

"Global Pop" beschreibt in mehr als vierzig Beitragen das Phanomen "Weltmusik" in seiner ganzen Breite, ordnet es historisch ein und schliesst es an aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Diskussionen an. Das Buch fuhrt in zentrale Begriffe ein und bietet eine anschauliche Beschreibung von charakteristischen Akteuren und musikalischen Genres. Neben den Kunstlern gilt das Interesse auch exemplarischen Figuren, die fur die Vermittlung von Weltmusik stehen. Daruber hinaus sind die kulturpolitischen sowie musikwirtschaftlichen Infrastrukturen von Weltmusik in Deutschland Thema. Auch der Name "Weltmusik" wird aus verschiedenen Perspektiven diskutiert, problematisiert und inklusive aktueller Entwicklungen einer "Weltmusik 2.0" verstanden, die durch Digitalisierung und Online- Kommunikation gepragt ist.

Das Buch untersucht anhand der Techno-Szene, ob die heutige Jugend politisches Engagement anders fullt, anders lebt, als die Jugendgenerationen vor ihr. Besonders Jugendlichen wird in den letzten Jahren haufig Politikverdrossenheit bescheinigt. Die Grunde, die dafur angegeben werden sind mit Schlagworten wie Kommerzialisierung, Mediatisierung und Individualisierung zu skizzieren, die sich bis in die Jugendstile hinein auswirken. Typisch erscheint in diesem Zusammenhang "Techno" Musik, die pragend ist fur eine bestimmte Form der Gruppenbildung bei Jugendlichen, deutlich zu sehen beispielsweise in der "Love Parade," an der jahrlich uber eine Million Menschen teilnehmen. Das Buch geht der Frage nach, ob die Techno-Szene also einen neuen Ort des Politischen fur junge Menschen darstellt und liefert mithin sowohl einen Beitrag zur Diskussion um den Wandel von Jugendkultur als auch zur politischen Soziologie posttraditionaler Vergemeinschaftungsformen."