“Green Energy Confronts Geopolitical Challenges”
On Monday, May 6, “Great Decisions” will meet again at 6:00 p.m. in the Walpole Town Library. All are welcome to join the discussion which will focus on renewable energy, its environmental impacts, international competition for climate technology and the race to net-zero.
The transition to clean energy will be neither smooth nor global, and just at a time when the world urgently needs cooperation, climate nationalism will rear its hideous head. The mining of rare earth minerals – bauxite for aluminum, lithium for batteries, cobalt from the Congo, to mention only a few – rarely calculates the adverse environmental costs. How will nationalism impede access to these essential elements? What trade agreements should be put in place to attain a net-zero carbon-emissions world?
We begin with a 25-minute “Master Class” video prepared by the Foreign Policy Association. (The Master Class is available at the library on DVD.) The relevant reading is the second article in the “Great Decisions” 2024 Edition: “Global Trade and Green Energy” by Bud Ward, environmental journalist and educator. This article is available at the library or via email by contacting Jane Malmberg, Library Director: jmalmberg@walpoletownlibrary.org
For those wishing to join via Zoom, you must request the Zoom link from Jane Malmberg. Please note that we are unable to show the “Master Class” on Zoom, so we suggest you join the meeting at 6:25 p.m.
Join us at the library on May 6 at 6:00 p.m. to consider renewable energy and its challenges from a global perspective.
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