Revolutionary Power
Shalanda Baker is a law professor at Northeastern University. Professor Baker spent three years as an associate professor of law at the University of Hawai'i's William S. Richardson School of Law, where she was the founding director of the Energy Justice Program. She previously taught law at the University of San Francisco School of Law. She received a Fulbright award in 2016 and spent a year in Mexico researching energy reform, climate change, and indigenous rights.
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017, destroying the small island's energy grid. The nearly year-long power outage that ensued exemplifies how the new climatic reality connects with race and energy access. The island is home to brown and black US residents who lack the political clout of their continental counterparts. As the world continues to warm and hurricanes like Maria become more prevalent, we must reimagine our current energy system to enable reliable, locally produced, and locally regulated energy without reproducing current power and control infrastructure.
Shalanda Baker's Revolutionary Power equips people made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to reinvent the system in the service of humanity. She contends that people of color, the poor, and indigenous people must participate in the development of a new energy system in order to disrupt the current system's unequal power dynamics.
Revolutionary Power is an energy transformation playbook that includes a step-by-step review of the key energy policy sectors that are ripe for action. Baker tells the experiences of individuals who have been left behind by our existing society as well as those who are fighting to build a more just one. She hopes to inspire activists working to construct our new energy system by drawing on her experience as an energy-justice champion, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color.
Climate change will push us to reconsider how we generate, distribute, and govern energy. But how far are we willing to go to alter the system? This historical juncture offers an exceptional chance for a broader change of the energy system, and consequently an opportunity to reform society. Revolutionary Power demonstrates how.
Author: Shalanda Baker
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