Come on then explain! What? What do you want and how do you want to do it?
Where am I coming from? Let me explain.
Environmentalists want sustainable energy. So we build wind-turbines. An excellent idea that will produce lots of sustainable and cheap, in the long run, energy. Can we get them built? NO. Why not? Because environmentalists oppose the building of them on environmental grounds. What? It was you people that wanted them in the first place.
If you build them close to houses then the complaint is that they spoil the environment. If you build them 100s of miles away from anywhere, let's say in the very north of Scotland for instance, then the environmentalists say there is too big an environmental problem in wilderness areas!!!
So that is wind generation scuppered.
Now let's take bio-fuels. Again a great idea. Let's power the world on non-polluting plant derived fuel. Environmentalists want that.
Now what they don't want is for people to go and grow them instead of food planting, because there isn't enough food to go round. There is only so much agricultural land. It can only be used for one thing at a time. So what do we need to do? Create more agricultural land. We can't do that because it damages the environment!!!!
GIVE ME STRENGTH.
The problem is that it is very easy to take the moral high ground and shout about environmental issues, but things need to be done. Life needs to be lived, people need jobs and food and the ability to move about. The environmental lobby is excellent at telling people that they should not be doing things, but what they cannot do is provide any alternative solutions, that are workable or affordable.
Perhaps they should really shut up until they have anything positive to say that will allow the world to move forward rather than attempting to block their own wishes because of their beliefs.
Irish
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2008-03-16 @ 10:42