Wind Farms and Aesthetics

Trump doesn't want them spoiling his golf in Scotland. And this New Zealand farmer also objects to the aesthetics. And this group of Scots didn't want them because they spoiled the view. We need to have a conversation about aesthetics.

What's it going to be: landscapes that appear pristine to the eye, with oil pipes running underneath? Or wind farms, with their stark reminder that we have chosen certain ways of life?

Once this position is exposed, the “argument” against wind farms falls back on the “harm to birds” argument. Yet new wind spires are extremely good at not hitting any birds at all. And the jury is still out on whether the blade ones really do the damage some have claimed.

I'm afraid every position we take in the hyperobject global warming is bound to be hypocritical. So I'm happy to be thought of as a hypocrite. I'd rather be a hypocrite than a cynic.