{"product_id":"on-the-grid-michael-warner-9780197696248","title":"On the Grid: Climate Change and the Utopia of Green Energy","description":"What kind of future would the utopian idea of unlimited green energy bring about?\u003cem\u003e On the Grid\u003c\/em\u003e, based on Michael Warner's Berkeley Tanner Lectures, raises critical questions about the sharp turn in environmental thought which addresses climate change through the form of a new power grid, driven by renewable energy and the goal to \"electrify everything.\" Environmental thought increasingly centers infrastructure, particularly the goal of a decarbonized electrical grid. The aim is unlimited energy use, but without greenhouse gas emissions. Warner asks: What kind of consumer is imagined when climate action takes the form of a green grid? How will that change actions around environmental ethics and politics, for example the mantra \"reduce, re-use, recycle\"? What other features of the environmentalist tradition now need revision? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWill carbon emissions be taken care of silently so individuals will only be asked to use more power? By what process --and with what kind of agency-- is the environmental future being built around and within us? \u003cem\u003eOn the Grid\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to generate such questionings in part by reviewing the cultural and political history that has made grid infrastructure a central but usually unrecognized dimension of government, as well as a structuring framework of the modern. Warner then traces a parallel history of various kinds of resistance to the grid, from Thoreau to present, including a countercultural tradition that was formative for much of the environmental movement. Is the green grid a case of \"improved means to unimproved ends\"? With contributions by Dale Jamieson, Jedediah Britton-Purdy, and Anahid Nersessian, and an introduction by volume editor Michael Lucey, \u003cem\u003eOn the Grid \u003c\/em\u003estarts a conversation about how the environmental tradition can better adapt to the current politics of grid reform.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Warner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197696244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197696248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Michael Warner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47244402032895,"sku":"9780197696248","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8de49b88-e7af-4a02-a425-55bd453c2569.jpg?v=1758135657","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-the-grid-michael-warner-9780197696248","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}