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Who Owns the Wind?: Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy

David Mcdermott Hughes

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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 ... Read more

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Paperback

Publication date

2021

Publisher

Verso

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New

Number of Pages

256

Place of Publication

London, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781839761133

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V9781839761133

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About David Mcdermott Hughes

David Hughes is professor of Anthropology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has written articles for Boston Review and three previous books, including Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity (2017). As an activist, Hughes has served as president of his faculty union and as a member of the Climate Task Force of the American ... Read more

Reviews for Who Owns the Wind?: Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy

David Hughes it doing some of the most innovative thinking and writing about energy democracy in the world. The movements for climate justice are in his debt.
Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything No task is more crucial than building out renewable energy around the world
but it can't happen at the speed it must unless communities embrace windmills ... Read moreand solar panels. And as this frank, straightforward and clarifying book makes clear, that will happen if and when we have a real stake in these assets. The author's proposals are ambitious but also modest and logical, and they are deeply grounded in real life observation
this is a book to be reckoned with.
Bill McKibben, author The End of Nature How do we conjure hope in these times of climate breakdown? In Who Owns the Wind? David McDermott Hughes shows that a climate-stabilizing energy revolution must socialize renewables so that wind power comes to be equated with social justice rather than private gain. McDermott Hughes takes readers to a small town in Spain where wind is abundant, and where citizens rose up against privately-owned, corporate wind power, stymieing energy transition. To head off such resistance, McDermott Hughes advocates for a "socialism of the wind." Who Owns the Wind? shows that we will win fossil fuel abolition only if we succeed in transforming renewable power into a common resource, one that tangibly benefits and enfranchises the communities where turbines and other infrastructure is located. McDermott Hughes's book should be required reading for all energy democracy advocates and environmental justice activists.
Ashley Dawson, author of Extreme Cities Until reading David Hughes' exquisitely written yet hard-hitting and crusading book, I hadn't realized how much hangs on the wind-and on who will own it. From one angle it is an eco-socialist manifesto, pushing its message with an unswerving passion: build millions of wind turbines, yes, but the people must own the wind. From another, it is a sumptuous volume that sparkles with moments of almost synaesthetic beauty-while reading it you feel the Andalusian wind brush your skin...Ultimately, the author finds sparks of hope among his ethnographic and literary subjects: the individuals and the picaresque traditions of southern Spain. For those who would like our planet to remain habitable, this is a must-read.
Gareth Dale Eloquent and incisive, this is an important contribution to climate change discourse.
Publishers Weekly
As radical as the most ambitious of the green revolution's plans.
Anna Aslanyan
Times Literary Supplement
Fascinating, highly revealing and sometimes poetic ... a joy to read.
Gabriel Carlyle
Peace News
David Hughes provides a nuanced and complex assessment of the perils and promises of developing renewable energy. Who Owns the Wind? is a joy to read, connecting large scale global forces with the lives and stories of individuals. This is a work full of insight, critical analysis, and even a modicum of hope.
Richard York Who Owns the Wind provides a fantastic account of a tense relationship between a wind farm and a 200-person village...The anthropologist's narration is rich and smooth, carefully untangling the reasons behind the inhabitant's varying postures toward the wind farm and reflecting on where these stances fit in the urgent need for a transition to clean energy.
Paola Velasco-Herrejón
Journal of Agrarian Change
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