The Shetland Way
Book description
'Remarkable and complex' GEORGE MCGAVIN
A memoir and investigation exploring loss, community and the climate crisis in the Shetland Islands by environmental journalist Marianne Brown.
An extraordinary look at the global climate emergency through the microcosm of Shetland's historic and present day role in energy production.
How do we balance…
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Shetland is a place bound tightly in "community." But when a huge windfarm is greenlit to export energy to mainland Scotland, it creates rifts between neighbours, friends and even families. One side supports the benefit to a planet spiralling into climate disaster; the other challenges the impact on an environment with its already struggling wildlife populations. As an environmental journalist, the author is drawn to investigate this story of sustainable energy that is bound up with her own grieving over her deceased father (who comes from Shetland). She then finds herself on a transformative journey into the heart of a…
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