The (un)just transition in ecomodernist climate policy
Critical analysis of social inequities in the US Inflation Reduction Act
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7174170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Babu Gounder (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author), C Taylor Brown (0000-0002-5345-7608, University of California, Berkeley), Collette Brown (0009-0000-6193-6679, University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 165-176 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-0183 • E-ISSN: 1461-703X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02610183241281349 |
| OpenAlex | W4402948676 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
The US Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 marks a monumental shift toward mitigating climate change and transitioning to a clean energy society. With disproportionate, adverse impacts of climate change on marginalized communities, we utilize a critical environmental justice framework to investigate how the policy structure may deepen social inequalities. While the climate policy invests in clean energy and includes provisions for marginalized communities, our critical analysis finds embedded, conventional power imbalances ceded to corporations and a failure to acknowledge environmental racism. As a result, benefits are far from equitably distributed to communities that bear class, racial, and environmental burdens. We specify policy revisions of narrowing low-income eligibility, incorporating race in provisional criteria, and expanding clean energy investments to environmental justice locations. While our proposed reforms may create a more equitable response, we argue US climate policy's shortcomings are endemic to its ecomodernist approach, limiting the possibility of a just transition
Economics · Inflation (cosmology · Political science · Reduction (mathematics · Transition (genetics · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |