num_pages: 256
description: Why the wind and energy it produces should not be private propertyThe energy transition has begun. To succeedto replace fossil fuels with wind and solar powerthat process must be fair. Otherwise mounting popular protest against wind farms will prolong carbon pollution and deepen the climate crisis. David McDermott Hughes examines that anti-industrial anti-corporate resistance drawing on his time spent conducting field research in a Spanish village surrounded by wind turbines. In the lives of a community freighted with centuries of exploitationpeople whom the author comes to know intimatelyclean power and social justice fit together only awkwardly. A green economy will require greater efforts to get ordinary people such as these on board. Aesthetics livelihood property and most essentially the private nature of wind resourcesall these topics must be examined with fresh eyes.
language: English
title: Who Owns the Wind? Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy
publisher: Verso