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A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructuresDoes Renewable Energy Exist? Fossil Fuel+ Technologies and the Search for Renewable Energy

A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures: Does Renewable... [A revised version of the “End Green Delusions” essay (Verso, 2018), this chapter argues that there is no such thing as renewable energy, only fossil fuel+. Raw material resource extraction for so-called renewable energy development relates to spreading socio-ecological degradation. Recognizing the supply chain costs for “renewable energy” as well as the socio-ecological impact of implementing wind parks, the chapter contends that fossil fuel+ is a more accurate description of “renewable energy”. Furthermore, it contends that fossil fuel+ infrastructures are breaking ecological and planetary cycles by harnessing the vitality of “renewable resources”. This means widening the lens of renewable energy’s “social acceptance” research to understand the socio-ecological chain of costs for fossil fuel+ development.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructuresDoes Renewable Energy Exist? Fossil Fuel+ Technologies and the Search for Renewable Energy

Editors: Batel, Susana; Rudolph, David
Dunlap, Alexander
Springer Journals — Aug 26, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-73698-9
Pages
83 –102
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-73699-6_5
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Abstract

[A revised version of the “End Green Delusions” essay (Verso, 2018), this chapter argues that there is no such thing as renewable energy, only fossil fuel+. Raw material resource extraction for so-called renewable energy development relates to spreading socio-ecological degradation. Recognizing the supply chain costs for “renewable energy” as well as the socio-ecological impact of implementing wind parks, the chapter contends that fossil fuel+ is a more accurate description of “renewable energy”. Furthermore, it contends that fossil fuel+ infrastructures are breaking ecological and planetary cycles by harnessing the vitality of “renewable resources”. This means widening the lens of renewable energy’s “social acceptance” research to understand the socio-ecological chain of costs for fossil fuel+ development.]

Published: Aug 26, 2021

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Fossil Fuel+; Development; Climate Change; Sustainable Violence

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