Our planet is facing a severe eco-social crisis marked by climate change, loss of biodiversity and depleted fossil fuel resources. In this context, the UN Agenda 2030 calls for a transition to renewable energies such as wind and solar power. However, the massive spread of related macro-installations in rural areas has far-reaching environmental, social and territorial impacts. These infrastructures disrupt ecosystems, landscapes and traditional activities such as agriculture, livestock farming and tourism, generating social tensions in affected communities. Alternative proposals based on domestic consumption, distributed generation and energy communities have emerged in response to this centralised corporate-driven model. This issue of Kult-ur brings together specialists who address this complex transition through the lens of various disciplines, including the perspective of citizen platforms that oppose the uncontrolled invasion of energy installations. It also includes interviews, aesthetic analysis, and reviews of books and the films Vidas Irrenovables and As Bestas, which portray the socio-environmental conflict of the current energy model and its consequences for the natural environment and its population.

Coordinator: Diego Arribas. Visual artist. PhD in Fine Arts from the Universitat Politècnica de València. borrajas@gmail.com