《失乐园》吗?绿色科技的红色右手

IF 3 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Simon Sneddon
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本文通过电动汽车(EV)的使用来解决气候和环境不公正问题。目前的电池市场非常依赖锂离子(Li-Ion)电池,因为它们提供“高效率和低成本”。2020年,彭博新能源财经(BloombergNEF)预测,到2040年,全球乘用车销量的58%将是电动汽车,对电池的需求也将相应上升。2010年至2021年间,电动汽车电池的平均单价从每千瓦时1200美元降至132美元。本文考虑了电动汽车对环境的影响,并评估了电动汽车技术效益计算中对当地社区影响的准确反映程度。结论是,虽然使用电动汽车的碳排放和对气候的影响明显低于使用汽油或柴油汽车,但目前的技术成本根本没有反映出对生活在电动汽车电池所需矿物开采地点附近的人口的不成比例的影响。
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Paradise lost? The red right hand of green technology
This article addresses issues of climate and environmental injustice through the lens of electric vehicle (EV) usage. The current market for batteries relies very heavily on Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) batteries, as they provide ‘high efficiency and low cost’. In 2020, BloombergNEF forecast that by 2040, 58 per cent of global passenger vehicles sales would be EVs, with demand for batteries rising commensurately. Between 2010 and 2021, the average unit price for EV batteries fell from $1200 to $132 per kW/h. The article considers the environmental impacts of EVs and assesses the extent to which impacts on local communities are reflected accurately in calculations of the benefits of EV technology. It concludes that whilst the carbon emissions and impact on the climate of using EVs is significantly lower than for using petrol or diesel vehicles, the current cost of the technology simply does not reflect the disproportionate impact on the populations living near the extraction sites for the minerals needed in EV batteries.
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期刊介绍: The relationship between human rights and the environment is fascinating, uneasy and increasingly urgent. This international journal provides a strategic academic forum for an extended interdisciplinary and multi-layered conversation that explores emergent possibilities, existing tensions, and multiple implications of entanglements between human and non-human forms of liveliness. We invite critical engagements on these themes, especially as refracted through human rights and environmental law, politics, policy-making and community level activisms.
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