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In reply to the discussion: More Wind Power Industry Stuff & Nonsense from East County Magazine [View all]hunter
(38,311 posts)I'm a Luddite in the sense I think we should be shutting down high energy and environmentally disruptive technologies like superhighways, electric power networks, airlines, extreme monoculture and factory farms, suburbs, and "consumer society" in general. I'd like to see dams removed. I'd like to see communities reworked to make automobile ownership unnecessary and even undesirable.
Building new stuff, even wind farms, digs the hole we are trapped in deeper.
I have zero expectation our civilization will conform to my own vision of utopia. Instead we will burn more fossil fuels until the climate changes so drastically the world economy collapses.
It's not difficult to imagine the dams on the Colorado River going stagnant causing a mass exodus of people from Arizona, Nevada, and Southern California. It's not difficult to imagine events like hurricane Sandy becoming more frequent and the oceans rising, forcing people out of existing urban areas and closing ports.
We can retreat from this unsustainable high energy resource intensive economy in a humane, orderly way, and avoid some of the pain to come, but we won't.