LEADER 04516oam 2200781I 450 001 9910821864503321 005 20190503073422.0 010 $a0-262-32107-6 010 $a0-262-52968-8 010 $a0-262-32106-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000217866 035 $a(EBL)3339843 035 $a(OCoLC)891399978 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001290464 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12479018 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001290464 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11244488 035 $a(PQKB)10108494 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat06895439 035 $a(IDAMS)0b00006482734966 035 $a(IEEE)6895439 035 $a(OCoLC)891399978$z(OCoLC)888353031$z(OCoLC)961612303 035 $a(OCoLC-P)891399978 035 $a(MaCbMITP)9999 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339843 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10907615 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL637232 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339843 035 $a(PPN)258834641 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000217866 100 $a20140826h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCheap and clean $ehow Americans think about energy in the age of global warming /$fStephen Ansolabehere and David M. Konisky 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cThe MIT Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-05981-0 311 $a0-262-02762-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Energy Challenge; 2 Energy Choices; 3 What People Want; 4 Price and Consequence; 5 Why Do People Hate Coal and Love Solar?; 6 The Chicken and the Egg; 7 Two Minds about Climate Change; 8 What to Do?; 9 A Way Forward; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels highly partisan and ideological? Does public opinion about fossil fuels and alternative energies divide along the fault between red states and blue states? And how much do concerns about climate change weigh on their opinions? In Cheap and Clean, Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky show that Americans are more pragmatic than ideological in their opinions about energy alternatives, more unified than divided about their main concerns, and more local than global in their approach to energy. Drawing on extensive surveys they designed and conducted over the course of a decade (in conjunction with MIT's Energy Initiative), Ansolabehere and Konisky report that beliefs about the costs and environmental harms associated with particular fuels drive public opinions about energy. People approach energy choices as consumers, and what is most important to them is simply that energy be cheap and clean. Most of us want energy at low economic cost and with little social cost (that is, minimal health risk from pollution). The authors also find that although environmental concerns weigh heavily in people's energy preferences, these concerns are local and not global. Worries about global warming are less pressing to most than worries about their own city's smog and toxic waste. With this in mind, Ansolabehere and Konisky argue for policies that target both local pollutants and carbon emissions (the main source of global warming). The local and immediate nature of people's energy concerns can be the starting point for a new approach to energy and climate change policy"--Publisher's description. 606 $aClean energy industries$zUnited States$xPublic opinion 606 $aRenewable energy sources$zUnited States$xPublic opinion 606 $aEnergy policy$zUnited States$xPublic opinion 606 $aGlobal warming$zUnited States$xPublic opinion 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 610 $aENVIRONMENT/General 610 $aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General 610 $aENVIRONMENT/Energy 615 0$aClean energy industries$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aRenewable energy sources$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aEnergy policy$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aGlobal warming$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aPublic opinion 676 $a333.790973 700 $aAnsolabehere$b Stephen$0544570 702 $aKonisky$b David M. 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821864503321 996 $aCheap and clean$94094976 997 $aUNINA