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“The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind turbines and associated access roads, masts, pylons, and wires.”

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Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth, born in 1972, is a renowned British writer whose works span across novels, poetry, and essays. His writing is known for its profound ecological awareness and unique literary style. more

“The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard owners to support wind power. It comes from those who appreciate the beauty of the countryside and who question the industrial spoliation of miles of open landscape for a pitiful net gain to climate change.”

Government Support Wind Gains Appreciate Climate Climate Change Currents Miles Hills Landscape Britain Owners March Countryside Backyards Pitiful Turbines Wind Power

Author:Simon Jenkins

“Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.”

Country Wind Environmental Scales Forests Conventional Monstrosity Turbines Wind Turbines

Author:Nigel Lawson

“Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.”

Thinking Ideas Wind Green Making Money Lots Of Money

Author:T. Boone Pickens

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