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Renewing Destruction - Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in a Latin American Context (Hardcover)
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Renewing Destruction - Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in a Latin American Context (Hardcover)
Series: Transforming Capitalism
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Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact
people and their environments. Wind energy development, in Mexico
and most countries, fall into a 'roll out' neoliberal strategy that
is justified by climate change mitigation programs that are
continuing a process of land and wind resources grabbing for
profit. The result has been an exaggeration of pre-existing
problems in communities around land, income-inequality, local
politics and, contrary to public relations stories, is devastating
traditional livelihoods and socio-ecological relationships.
Exacerbating pre-existing social and material problems in
surrounding towns, wind energy development is placing greater
stress on semi-subsistence communities, marginalizing Indigenous
traditions and indirectly resulting in the displacement and
migration of people into urban centers. Based on intensive
fieldwork with local groups in Oaxaca Mexico in 2015, the book
provides an in-depth study, demonstrating the complications and
problems that emerge with the current regime of 'sustainable
development' and wind energy projects in Mexico, which has wider
lessons to be drawn for other regions and countries. Put simply,
the book reveals a tragic reality that calls into question the
marketed hopes of the green economy and the current method of
climate change mitigation. It shows the variegated impacts and
issues associated with building wind energy parks, which extends to
recognizing the destructive effects on Indigenous cultures and
practices in the region. The book, however, highlights what to
consider or, more importantly, what to avoid if one is working with
industrial-scale wind energy systems.
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