Who owns the wind?
climate crisis and the uncertain hope of renewable energy
- ISBN: 9781839761133
- Editorial: Verso Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2022
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 256
- Idiomas: Inglés
The energy transition has begun. To succeed - to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar power - that process must be fair. Otherwise, mounting popular protest against wind farms will prolong carbon pollution and deepen the climate crisis. David Hughes examines that anti-industrial, anti-corporate resistance, drawing insights from a Spanish village surrounded by turbines. In the lives of these neighbours - freighted with centuries of exploitation - clean power and social justice fit together only awkwardly. Proposals for a green economy, the Green New Deal, or Europe's Green Deal require more effort. We must rethink aesthetics, livelihood, property, and, most essentially, the private nature of wind resources. Ultimately, the energy transition will be public and just, or it may not be at all.
Introduction: Hope and uncertain hope
Wind on land
How not to fight a wind farm
The Eden problem
Energy without stories
Turbine sublime
Landscapes of wheat of war
Vigilance, the new mood of energy
Latifundios of air
Just sacrifice, an experiment
Conclusion: Wind, justice, and compromise.
