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Re: depressed about wind farms now
Aug 14, 2007, 08:00
muddy knees wrote:

I had rather hoped to move the debate along from nimby-ism and anti-nuclear knee-jerks

New, massive industrial installations of any kind are not making individuals responsible for consumption. we need to be thinking about individual and community-scale production, but first REDUCTION.


Wind farms are one of those thorny issues that we have to grasp if we dont want to bequeath to the future nuclear waste that stays in the soil for thousands of years. Like Rhiannon I don't mind wind farms but they do alter our view of what we see in the country.
We live under the auspices of a 'free economy', free speech, free the right to do what you want! there are only a few ways out of the current mess, either introduce strong measures (taxation), put more money into renewables(something the government is'nt doing) or opt out and wait for armageddon (that is of course whether you believe in it). Some people are optimistic they create a more sustainable present time now, Germany is a good model, start creating your own energy and feed it back into the main grid........
What will probably happen is as energy gets scarce, and it does round winter when we get a cold snap, perhaps more people will take on board the fact that we are sailing towards a 'limited energy future'
Transition towns are one way, something new out there..... Kinsale, Lewes, Totnes...

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