Who Owns the Wind?: Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781839761133)

Why the wind, and energy it produces, should not be private property

The energy transition has begun. To succeed--to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar power--that process must be fair. Otherwise, mounting pop- ular 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 exploitation--people whom the author comes to know intimately--clean 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 resources--all these topics must be examined with fresh eyes.

Author: David McDermott Hughes
ISBN-10: 183976113X
ISBN-13: 9781839761133
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/27/2021
Choice 09/01/2022