88-413 Energy and Climate: History, Science, Technology, & Policy in the US 1776-2076
9 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course provides CMU students with a historically grounded, technically informed, and policycentered examination of energy and climate in the United States from the American Revolution to the nations tricentennial, by which time the nation will either have taken the necessary action to avoid massive catastrophes related to global warming or will be destined forand perhaps already experiencinga series of vastly catastrophic climate events that visit apocalypticlike suffering and misery on large segments of the nation. Energy procurement and expenditure in the US and climate change have been surprisingly linked over the nations entire. Now is the time for CMU students to understand these relationships historically, technically and scientifically, and politically and geopolitically. The course is structured around the reading and discussion of landmark scholarship on energy and climate sewn together by lectures, films, and various unorthodox pedagogical methods.
Prerequisites: none listed
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