Who Owns the Wind? (eBook)

Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy

David McDermott Hughes (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021 | Ebook UK & RoW
256 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-83976-114-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.10.2021
• Zusatzinfo: + 8pp mono plate section
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • climate change • climate justice • Energy • Energy Transition • Environmental Studies • Geography • renewable energy • Social Movements • Spain • Wind Power
• ISBN-10: 1-83976-114-8 / 1839761148
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-114-0 / 9781839761140