The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health
The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health
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DOI：
10.1016/j.erss.2020.101661
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发表时间：
2020-10-01
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
Olabisi, Laura Schmitt
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作者：
Brosemer, Kathleen;Schelly, Chelsea;Olabisi, Laura Schmitt
2019冠状病毒病全球大流行是一场卫生危机、经济危机和司法危机。它还揭示了多重持续的、潜在的社会危机。新冠肺炎危机至少在四个方面积极揭示了能源主权危机。首先，由于缺乏提供这些服务所需的能源服务，许多人无法获得基本保健服务。其次，由于暴露于与能源生产相关的环境污染，一些人更容易感染COVID-19。第三，能源服务对人类福祉至关重要，但能源服务的获取在很大程度上被视为一种消费品。因此，COVID-19导致的稳定收入损失可能意味着许多人无法获得可靠的基本能源服务。第四，2019冠状病毒病危机为企业利益集团积极追求能源议程创造了机会，使碳密集型和企业控制的能源系统永久化，这表明能源决策过程中存在程序不公正。这四个相关的危机表明，为什么能源主权对于一个公正的能源未来至关重要。能源主权被定义为社区的权利，而不是公司的利益，控制能源服务的来源、规模和所有权形式的获取和决策。能源主权是设计后covid -19能源系统的关键组成部分，该系统能够抵御未来冲击，而不会加剧导致我们中最弱势群体死亡的不公正现象。
The global COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis, an economic crisis, and a justice crisis. It also brings to light multiple ongoing, underlying social crises. The COVID-19 crisis is actively revealing crises of energy sovereignty in at least four ways. First, there are many whose access to basic health services is compromised because of the lack of energy services necessary to provide these services. Second, some people are more vulnerable to COVID-19 because of exposure to environmental pollution associated with energy production. Third, energy services are vital to human wellbeing, yet access to energy services is largely organized as a consumer good. The loss of stable income precipitated by COVID-19 may therefore mean that many lose reliable access to essential energy services. Fourth, the COVID-19 crisis has created a window of opportunity for corporate interests to engage in aggressive pursuit of energy agendas that perpetuate carbon intensive and corporate controlled energy systems, which illuminates the ongoing procedural injustices of energy decision making. These four related crises demonstrate why energy sovereignty is essential for a just energy future. Energy sovereignty is defined as the right for communities, rather than corporate interests, to control access to and decision making regarding the sources, scales, and forms of ownership characterizing access to energy services. Energy sovereignty is a critical component in the design of a post-COVID-19 energy system that is capable of being resilient to future shocks without exacerbating injustices that are killing the most vulnerable among us.