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Here is a summary:
| Chapter | Title | What’s Covered / Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Preface | — | Sets out the stakes: the promise of the energy transition, the existing inequities, and the risk that transition could replicate old injustices. (University of Chicago Press) |
| 1 | “An American Injustice” | Provides broad framing about who benefits/loses from past energy policies and why justice must be central going forward. (University of Chicago Press) |
| 2 | “Sacrifice Zones” | Details places with heavy environmental damage and how those zones are shaped by power, policy, and race/class divides. (University of Chicago Press) |
| 3 | “Beaten, Broken, Forgotten” | Focus on broken infrastructure, places left behind, people unable to access reliable electricity or being disproportionately harmed. (University of Chicago Press) |
| 4 | “Life Without Energy” | Looks at what happens when energy is unavailable or unaffordable — impacts on households, health, well‐being. (University of Chicago Press) |
| 5 | “Where New Technologies Don’t Go” | Shows how even promising clean technologies often miss or exclude certain communities. (Energy Justice Lab) |
| 6 | “Backyards and Ballots” | Explores how local politics, land use, and civic participation affect whether people’s lives are improved or harmed by energy transitions. (Energy Justice Lab) |
| 7 | “The Life Cycle of an Injustice” | Examines the full cycle of energy systems — from extraction, production, deployment, to disposal — and where injustices show up. (University of Chicago Press) |
| 8 | “The Uneasy, Uneven Future” | Looks forward: where energy transitions could go better, what policies might help, lessons to avoid repeating past mistakes. (University of Chicago Press) |