Renewable accumulation by expropriation
What comes the urgency of filling our country with wind power plants and solar panels? Clearly, the most obvious reason is the need to respond to climate change, to replace fossil fuels with renewable sources. This is indeed the objective of both European funds and other public funds being channelled from the Autonomous States and Communities. However, these funds will end up in the same bag as usual, that is, in the hands of the few who form the dream team of the companies Acciona, Iberdrola, Siemens Gamesa and energy. Without too many surprises, public momentum has always been an indispensable condition for the development of renewables, so behind this public investment we will not find a spontaneous awakening of governments’ environmental awareness, nor an end to democratize and decentralize the energy market. This momentum will not change the energy market, but will only increase the list of privatisation of profits.
Always being the energy producers is the most logical option, the most realistic in the face of urgency, to guide the production of renewables. But behind it lies an uncomfortable truth: that form is fossil fuels, but that private benefits are the essence. Proof of this is that where renewables have developed most, fossil fuel consumption has not decreased, while energy consumption has increased.
Behind public investment we will not find a sudden awakening of the environmental awareness of governments, nor an end to democratizing and decentralizing the energy market.
The closure of the most polluting companies in the Basque Country and the proliferation of renewable sources, without developing basic production chains to meet the needs of the population, can serve to decorate the emissions numbers, but our true ecological footprint will grow in the same way. Because the blood coming from contemporary capitalism is petroleum, allowing the distribution of global production, our consumption and international trade, in short, globalization. Thus, the closure of the most polluting industries is not new, they are relocations motivated by lower environmental and labour costs.
Here's the fundamental question: what do we want, stop climate change or adapt to climate change? Giving up building a consensus for the expropriation of the energy, food and transport industries, and not working for comprehensive planning that is essential for an ecological transition, is giving up stopping climate change. It is about opening doors to new processes of accumulation by expropriation, new relocations and new emissions. We need solutions, and also as soon as possible, and while continuing to do what always seems the most pragmatic option, it will never be a solution.
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