Power And Revolution Growth

[Camie Fons]

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Black Power began as revolutionary movement in the 1960s and 1970s. It emphasized racial pride, economic empowerment, and the creation of political and cultural institutions. During this era, there was a rise in the demand for Black history courses, a greater embrace of African culture, and a spread of raw artistic expression displaying the realities of African Americans.

This portal highlights records of Federal agencies and collections that related to the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The selected records contain information on various organizations, including the Nation of Islam (NOI), Deacons for Defense and Justice, and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). It also includes records on several individuals, including Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Elaine Brown, Angela Davis, Fred Hampton, Amiri Baraka, and Shirley Chisholm. This portal is not meant to be exhaustive, but to provide guidance to researchers interested in the Black Power Movement and its relation to the Federal government.

The records in this guide were created by Federal agencies, therefore, the topics included had some sort of interaction with the United States Government. This subject guide includes textual and electronic records, photographs, moving images, audio recordings, and artifacts. Records can be found at the National Archives at College Park, as well as various presidential libraries and regional archives throughout the country.

Due to the type of possible content found in series related to Black Power, there may be restrictions associated with access and the use of these records. Several series in RG 60 - Department of Justice (DOJ) and RG 65 - Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) may need to be screened for FOIA (b)(1) National Security, FOIA (b)(6) Personal Information, and/or FOIA (b)(7) Law Enforcement prior to public release. Researchers interested in records that contain FOIA restrictions, should consult our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) page.

The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will spur about $3 trillion investment in renewable energy technology that could double the amount of energy produced by the shale revolution 15 years ago, according to Goldman Sachs Research.

Clean power investments will also prove critical to this renewable revolution, given that power generation was responsible for about 30% of U.S. carbon emissions in 2021. Power infrastructure plays a significant role in electrification trends in transport, industry, buildings and green hydrogen production.

Our analysts anticipate that the early years of the new revolution will be driven mainly by electrification through the expansion of renewable power facilities, transmission, storage, and networks and building upgrades. Later, spending for clean hydrogen spending and carbon capture will accelerate. The report estimates that the average annual investment in decarbonization between this year and 2050 will be about $400 billion, representing about 1.3% of GDP, with the peak estimated at about $520 billion, or 1.7% of GDP, in the mid-2030s.

Among residential and commercial users, electricity will gradually almost completely replace natural gas, the team predicts. Meanwhile U.S. net gas exports, primarily driven by increased liquefied natural gas capacity, will almost double from 11 billion cubic feet a day to 20 billion by 2030, cushioning the overall decline of domestic gas consumption, the report finds.

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Coalbrookedale, a small village in Shropshire, has been called the cradle of the Industrial Revolution because it was here in 1709 that Abraham Darby discovered how to smelt iron ore using coke (a purified form of coal that burns hotter and cleaner) rather than charcoal.

This discovery transformed the making of iron, with annual production in Britain growing from about 2,500 tonnes per annum in the 1700s to 28,000 tonnes per annum by the 1750s to 180,000 in 1800 and 2.5 million by 1850 (Riden, 1977). This scale of production would not have been possible without coal. Some estimates indicate that if half the land surface of Britain had been covered by woodland to supply charcoal purely for the iron industry, then iron production would have been 1.25 million tonnes per annum at best (Wrigley, 2013).

As well as it metallurgical uses, coal was increasingly used during the Industrial Revolution as a source of power. The heat energy it created was transformed into mechanical energy thanks to the development of the steam engine.

Somewhat ironically, the first steam engine, which was developed by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, was made to pump water from coal mines. Flooding meant that mines could not go below 50 metres, but the development of the Newcomen steam engine allowed mine shafts to be a lot deeper and thus substantially increased the supply of coal (Wrigley, 2013).

Steam engines were eventually developed for other purposes, most famously by James Watt in 1763. Although the steam engine was relatively slow to diffuse across other industries, by 1870, steam power was providing 90% of the horsepower for British industry (Crafts, 2004). The famous French engineer mile Levassor estimated that 1 horsepower provided by a steam engine was equivalent to that delivered by 21 manual workers (Wrigley, 2013). This means that by 1870, steam power in Britain was delivering the equivalent of 43 million manual workers.

Prior to 1750, the authors find no relationship. But, after 1750, cities located close to coalfields grew much more rapidly than those located further away. In other words, geology and fossil fuels mattered for growth during the Industrial Revolution.

Exploiting the fact that coal use by industries varied greatly across urban areas in Britain, researchers find that industrial coal use explains about one-third of the urban mortality penalty for infants in the 1850s (Beach and Hanlon, 2018). In other words, air pollution had major negative consequences for infant mortality.

Air pollution also had an effect on child development. Using data on heights of soldiers who enlisted during the First World War and who had been born in England and Wales during the 1890s, it has been found that coal pollution had a detrimental effect on child development (Bailey et al, 2018).

Research has also explored how air pollution from coal affected long-run city growth in Britain between 1851 and 1911 (Hanlon, 2020). Exploiting the facts that air pollution was high and highly variable across Britain, this research finds that industrial use of coal had a major negative effect on employment growth in British cities.

The effect may have come through two channels. First, pollution makes a city less attractive to live in and thus affects the supply of workers. Second, pollution makes workers less productive, thus affecting the demand for them.

Coal played a role in the transformation of the British and European economies during the Industrial Revolution. This transformation ushered in economic growth and a substantial rise in living standards. But, the air pollution that accompanied this revolution affected both mortality and health, and eventually slowed down economic growth.

But, even a more pragmatic government would have struggled to prevent the poor and working classes from bearing the cost of regulation. As countries move away from fossil fuels, care needs to be taken that the costs of regulation are not disproportionately borne by the working classes and the poor.

Fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas, are by far the largest contributor to global climate change, accounting for over 75 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions.

Fossil fuels still account for more than 80 percent of global energy production, but cleaner sources of energy are gaining ground. About 29 percent of electricity currently comes from renewable sources.

Renewables offer a way out of import dependency, allowing countries to diversify their economies and protect them from the unpredictable price swings of fossil fuels, while driving inclusive economic growth, new jobs, and poverty alleviation.

Renewable energy actually is the cheapest power option in most parts of the world today. Prices for renewable energy technologies are dropping rapidly. The cost of electricity from solar power fell by 85 percent between 2010 and 2020. Costs of onshore and offshore wind energy fell by 56 percent and 48 percent respectively.

Although solar and wind power costs are expected to remain higher in 2022 and 2023 then pre-pandemic levels due to general elevated commodity and freight prices, their competitiveness actually improves due to much sharper increases in gas and coal prices, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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