On the June 2nd edition of Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the United States’ energy landscape. According to the World Bank, 80 to 85 percent of the energy consumed in the US is from fossil fuels. What are the economic, social and environmental costs of our dependency on fossil fuel and what will it take to transition to renewable energy? What are real alternatives to oil? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Richard Heinberg, senior fellow at Post Carbon Institute
Mark Jacobson, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and director of Atmosphere and Energy program at Stanford University
Web Resources:
Scientific American: A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables
Vox: The IMF says we spend $5.3 trillion a year on fossil fuel subsidies. How is that possible?
The Guardian: US taxpayers subsidising world's biggest fossil fuel companies
New Internationalist: From best to worst: renewable energy around theworld
Union of concerned scientists: Environmental Impacts of Solar Power
