PETER A. VICTOR

As the supply/cost/climate crunch tightens, and pressures for a just, energy transition continue to build, issues related to energy become increasingly compelling. This guide to the fossil fuel crisis facing Canada, and Ontario in particular, published over 40 years ago, is also about other long-term matters of great importance: the economic, social-political, and cultural consequences of the choices which still have to be made, primarily by governments.

The authors argue that energy policy is social policy. Therefore, our ideas about the kind of society we want must be a governing consideration in working out a policy to take Canada through the energy transition. The four writers bring to bear on the problem the perspectives of engineering, philosophy, environmental studies, and economics. The result is a balanced guide for the continuing debate on the adaptation of society to the imperatives of energy that is still relevant today.