Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Introduction: Hope and uncertain hope -- Wind on land -- How not to fight a wind farm -- The Eden problem -- Energy without stories -- Turbine sublime -- Landscapes of wheat of war -- Vigilance, the new mood of energy -- Latifundios of air -- Just sacrifice, an experiment -- Conclusion: Wind, justice, and compromise.
"David Hughes examines the anti-industrial, anti-corporate resistance to sustainable energy, drawing on his time spent conducting field research in a Spanish village surrounded by wind turbines. He discovers that 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"--