Why the wind, and energy it produces, should not be private property
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. As an activist, Hughes has served as president of his faculty union and as a member of the Climate Task Force of the American Federation of Teachers.
Praise for Energy without Conscience (Duke University Press,
2017):
Hughes has contributed greatly to an understanding of how climate
change is viewed in locations outside of the modern Western world.
* Anthropology Book Forum *
Praise for Energy without Conscience (Duke University Press,
2017):
Energy without Conscience is a thoughtful take on how
climate change complicity can exist without a countrywide
collective conscience of wrongdoing, and this is where the story
excels. Many of Hughes's arguments are clever, tight, and
theoretically well connected to work by Bill McKibben, James Scott,
Tania Li, Michael Watts, and others. * Geographical Review *
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
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
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 and 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
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
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 *
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