{"id":765,"date":"2005-02-17T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/02\/17\/tilting-at-windmills\/"},"modified":"2005-02-17T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T17:11:00","slug":"tilting-at-windmills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/tilting-at-windmills\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilting at Windmills"},"content":{"rendered":"
From Bill McKibben, a New York Times<\/em> op-ed<\/a> on the great windmill debate: are they a necessary tool in the fight against climate change, or an unsightly blight on the landscape? McKibben chooses the former, and I have to agree. The potential damage global warming could could inflict on the natural environment seems to trump the aesthetic issues. And I do think these are primarily aesthetic issues — everything I’ve read shows minimal environmental impact of new-generation windmills. No place for NIMBYs, folks…<\/p>\n Technorati tags: wind power<\/a>, global warming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Bill McKibben, a New York Times op-ed on the great windmill debate: are they a necessary tool in the fight against climate change, or an unsightly blight on the [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n