ENEP426 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fast Fourier Transform, Treaty, Additionality
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History - uncover why things are the way they are. Social, economic, political factors that have all lead to climate change. In order of us to solve the problem of cc were going to somehow need to address the social economic technical political factors. In the us main reason why we burn fossil fuels is transportation - cars. In order to dig deeper and ask questions for political economy we need to ask questions like. History - first widely used transportation was electric rail. Ford and gm bought electric rail companies and ran it into the ground. Electric rails have no pollution (electricity did come from coal though) Buses came onto the scene , was known that the people would hate buses, and so sales of cars went up. One of biggest supporters of gm was a dupont who was also the secretary of war.