Sample papers

Introduction of the course, Q/A, course requirements.

Why is energy availability increasing the number of people and their well-being while destroying the planet?

Why are fossil fuels so cheap? And are they really?

Are we running out of energy?

Why is the market failing to protect the environment?

How do alternative schools of economics view the use of the environment?

Why is climate change a scientific, not an ideological phenomenon?

What is the future of energy supplies?

Why is it so hard to agree on a solution to climate change?

Should we make fossil fuels more expensive or ban them?

Is democratisation of the energy sector the right way to a fairer energy supply?

Why is fossil fuel abandonment so difficult?