Owning the Transition with David Hughes, Mika Minio-Paluello & Thea Riofrancos

The global transition towards renewable energy cannot be summarized by the switch from one energy source to another. Who owns these resources, who builds and controls renewable energy infrastructures and ultimately who will access and benefit from them, are key questions to address if we want to understand what is at stake when we speak about the energy transition. In our third episode of Climate Crisis: Time for a New Society, David Hughes, Mika Minio and Thea Riofrancos focus on the question of wind and how this endless resource can be appropriated to generate a socially profitable energy transformation.

Climate Crisis: Time for a New Society is a new podcast where writers and activists discuss radical ideas to move beyond the doom of climate breakdown. A collaboration between the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels and Verso Books.

Further reading:

COP26: a radical climate reading list. 10 books to help us radically fight in a world on fire.

Radical Futures: books to help us re-imagine new futures.

Theorizing the Climate Crisis: a reading list around how different theories of the climate crisis shape our understanding of what must be done.

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

In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics. 

Who Owns the Wind?

by David McDermott Hughes

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 ca...

A Planet to Win

by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos

All politics are climate politics in the twenty-first century - and this bold book argues for a Green New Deal that confronts both climate change and inequalityThe age of climate gradualism is over...