# Benjamin Sovacool

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Energy Security Cubed: Nuclear Energy and Its Challenges

In this episode, on the Energy Security3 Podcast, Kelly Ogle and Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex, Dr. Benjamin Sovacool, discuss nuclear energy on a global scale and some of the safety and feasibility challenges it faces.   Participant Bio: -Dr. Benjamin Sovacool is a Profess…

The decarbonization divide with Benjamin Sovacool

In this episode, we talk with Benjamin Sovacool about how the most toxic and least safe aspects of energy resources (e.g., e-waste facilities and mining operations) are borne by those who do not have the benefit of consuming those resources, as well as his reflections on being an author of the most…

Surveying experts' views - Sovacool

Benjamin Sovacool gives @geoengineering1 a bad case of imposter syndrome, with his monster opinion survey of expert views. Papers discussed: Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies https://www.sciencedirect…

Debate on green anarchism vs. eco-socialism

Time and again neoliberal techno-capitalism has demonstrated an inability to address global challenges such as the climate crisis. Two movements, which have been called Green Anarchy and Eco Socialism, share a similar urgency and critique on the role techno-capitalism and fossil capital are playing…

What Does it Really Mean to Just Transition?

The idea of a "just transition" often is associated with coal miners and other fossil fuel workers whose jobs are going away. But it’s a topic that’s so much bigger than that. As we’ll hear throughout this season, this concept encapsulates broader ideals of righting past wrongs - wrongs like racism…

Obstacles: What is Carbon Lock-in? ft. Benjamin Sovacool

Today you will learn from expert guest Benjamin Sovacool about the carbon lock-in, why it's an obstacle to solving climate change, and how we mitigate or eliminate the obstacle of the carbon lock-in for climate change solutions. Timestamps: (00:00) - Intro (01:15) - What is carbon lock-in? (03…

Episode 5.7: Powering Progress: Navigating Energy Justice with Benjamin Sovacool

Interviewer: AUDREY JAQUISS. Director of the Institute for Global Sustainability and Professor at Boston University, BENJAMIN SOVACOOL, delves into the crucial concept of energy justice. Sovacool unravels its definition and examines the demographics and locations where it is most pertinent. Disting…

45. Benjamin Sovacool and Chad Baum on global trends in public perceptions of climate technologies

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Benjamin Sovacool and Dr. Chad Baum, about their newly published, high-impact paper, “Public Perceptions and Support of Climate Intervention Technologies across the Global North and Global South”. Join us as we discuss the key findings of their work, and how these…