📗 Libro en inglés WHO OWNS THE WIND?

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