... the same way people used to view smokestacks as progress.
I don't see wind turbines littering the hillsides or seascapes as progress, I see them as greenwash for the filthy natural gas industry.
My smoking analogy is a good one.
We're building wind turbines for an industrial economy powered mostly by natural gas, and worse, we're promoting that as a good thing.
Well, yeah, it's better than coal.
But it is equivalent to a heavy smoker cutting back on their own smoking while promoting their own reduced smoking habit to non-smokers.
NOT smoking in the first place is always going to be the healthier option.
NOT burning fossil fuels is always going to be the healthier option for the earth's environment and all the sentient, intelligent beings who live here, not just humans.
Unfortunately it's always a hard sell telling people their work ethics and "productivity" are not making the world a better place, and that we'd all be better off if they just stayed home and read a book, watched some birds, or took an art class.
It's especially difficult selling it to people promoting the "lite" version of our high energy industrial consumer economy.
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