" Renewables are a gigantic speculative bubble - like that of subprime mortgages - that enriches a few and devastates the environment". The analysis is by Maria Giovanna Bosco who signed a study on the "Sardinia Case" published in the magazine L'Industria, edited by Il Mulino.
The university professor of Gallura origins explains: «I started from the narrative elements – protests by citizens' committees, newspaper articles – to look for the facts that indicate the infiltration of the industrial world into politics , to the point that the decision-making and political process has been subservient to the interests of well-defined private entities. The framework is the rules that facilitate expropriations, the attempt to silence opposition movements to win over the public with an ad hoc narrative . There is an industrial dynamic that includes state aid despite the general European ban : investing in healthcare is not an option, because there is a budget constraint, which instead falls for renewables. The result is that the public entity has ended up promoting the needs of private individuals by passing them off as general interest».
He reconstructs the choice to focus on Sardinia: «In 2021, Enel identified it in some press releases as the future energy hub of the Mediterranean. Certainly the commodification of the sun and wind risks perpetuating a neocolonialist attitude on the part of the institutions towards the Island».
The full interview in the paper and digital editions
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