Publication: La transición energética española como una huida hacia adelante del capital
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Ramón Sánchez, Álvaro
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Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Las transiciones energéticas constituyen la principal respuesta política y económica al calentamiento global y al agotamiento de los combustibles fósiles. Sin embargo, los obstáculos técnicos y sociales para la viabilidad de un modelo de crecimiento verde obligan a considerar la hipótesis de que la extensión masiva de las energías renovables no esté motivada por la conciencia medioambiental sino por la oportunidad de negocio para el capital. En este artículo se recurre a las aportaciones teóricas de David Harvey y Jason Moore para caracterizar la transición energética española como un ejercicio de acumulación por desposesión y de apropiación de Naturaleza Barata, respectivamente. A través de estos conceptos se analizan las razones del discurso crítico sintetizado en la frase “renovables sí, pero no así”. Una vez presentadas las implicaciones económicas locales y nacionales, se intenta poner en contexto con la estructura Norte-Sur del capitalismo global. En el punto actual de degradación medioambiental, una transición energética hacia fuentes “limpias” es necesaria, pero la impulsada por el capital es más bien una huida hacia adelante.
Energy transitions constitute the main political and economic response to global warming and the depletion of fossil fuels. However, the technical and social obstacles to the viability of a green growth model force to consider the hypothesis that the massive extension of renewable energies is not motivated by environmental awareness but by the business opportunity for capital instead. This article employs the theoretical contributions of David Harvey and Jason Moore to characterize the Spanish energy transition as an exercise of accumulation by dispossession and appropriation of Cheap Nature, respectively. Through these concepts, the reasons for the critical discourse synthesized in the motto "renewable yes, but not like that" are analysed. Once the local and national economic implications are presented, an attempt is made to put them in context with the North-South structure of global capitalism. At the current point of environmental degradation, an energy transition towards "clean" sources is essential, but the one driven by capital is rather a headlong rush.
Energy transitions constitute the main political and economic response to global warming and the depletion of fossil fuels. However, the technical and social obstacles to the viability of a green growth model force to consider the hypothesis that the massive extension of renewable energies is not motivated by environmental awareness but by the business opportunity for capital instead. This article employs the theoretical contributions of David Harvey and Jason Moore to characterize the Spanish energy transition as an exercise of accumulation by dispossession and appropriation of Cheap Nature, respectively. Through these concepts, the reasons for the critical discourse synthesized in the motto "renewable yes, but not like that" are analysed. Once the local and national economic implications are presented, an attempt is made to put them in context with the North-South structure of global capitalism. At the current point of environmental degradation, an energy transition towards "clean" sources is essential, but the one driven by capital is rather a headlong rush.
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REC Revista de economía crítica, ISSN-e 2013-5254, ISSN 1696-0866, Nº. 38, 2024, págs. 38-52




