Axordil writes, "You know, where I work, continually pointing out the problems with an idea without coming up with a better solution is a sure-fired way to get surely fired."

So you work for assholes. What does that have to do with anything?

I don't know about the politics of your region, but I would only say that if we don't address global warming, the sound you live on is going to be under 100 feet of sea water anyway. I think that gives "Save Our Sound" an entirely different meaning.

Delaware is controlled by Democrats, but not the tree-hugging kind. NRG's good reception among state lawmakers has less to do with the lobbyist for the coal industry and more to do with the fact that some very powerful construction unions want the new coal plant built. The Delaware Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents 20 unions from bricklayers to pipefitters, is in bed with NRG on the coal plant proposal. Why? Because 15 of the 20 unions it represents would get jobs on the project. A local environmental group called Green Delaware has a web site with more information for anyone interested.

I don't know why some people complain about the sight of windmills, I find their appearance graceful and fascinating, quite apart from the fact that I would much rather breathe clean air under a turning windmill than to breathe smog without it.

“Can a dung-basket, then,” said Aristippus, “be a beautiful thing?” “Yes, by Jupiter,” returned Socrates, “and a golden shield may be an ugly thing, if the one be beautifully formed for its particular uses, and the other ill formed.”

Xeonphon's Memorabilia of Socrates, Book III, Chapter I

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Clean Power Now represents and gives voice to the people. We are an important part of a broad coalition supporting the Cape Wind project: Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, MassPIRG, Earth Policy Institute, Mass Energy, Environmental League of Massachusetts, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Carpenters Union and the Maritime Trades just to name a few.

Wind energy remains the fastest growing and cleanest source of electricity in the world today. An understanding of how to sustainably develop the world's vast offshore wind resources means we have a viable optionof meeting current and future needs without further compromising the Earth's atmosphere and the quality of life of future generations.

In our daily lives there is nothing more santized than electricity. When you sit down to eat a burger - you make a connection. When you fill a glass of water - you make a connection. But when you put a plug into an electrical outlet - the connection ends. Try to envision the tops of mountains being dynamited in order to find the coal within. Communities are dying so we in New England can run our air conditioners, watch our TV's, and use our computers.

Since 2001, Cape Wind has been undergoing a 6 year regulatory review, and in that time 15 offshore wind farms began operating in European shallow waters, with 10 more permitted and due to start construction within the next year. With over 20,000 pages of review already produced and issued Cape Wind has undergone more scrutiny than any fossil fuel or nuclear facility currently operating in Massachusetts.

"Cape Wind holds the promise of making Massachusetts a world wide leader in renewable energy production and is an important step away from our crippling dependence on fossil fuels with all their attendent environmental, social, economic and political costs." Former Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs, Robert Durand.

Cape Wind will be permitted. Cape Wind will be built. It will provide numerous public benefits including supplying three quarters of the electrical needs of Cape Cod and the island with a non polluting, abundant renewable supply of energy.

We will be proud to say that the renewable energy revolution was launched off our coast right in our backyard.

...that sometimes one must choose between less than ideal options. That the perfect is the enemy of the good. That unless someone has a BETTER idea than wind power, not simply one that has DIFFERENT problems, blanket statements about wind being a dead end are going to sound like they are coming from the most selfish and short-sigthed NIMBYs and apologists for legacy polluters.

And that nobody likes whiners, of course.

What practically no one is willing to say about mitigating the effects of global warming is the imperative for living with less, or at least not having more. We will have less, whether willingly or not, so we might consider changing our economic system to a Steady State economy. We might consider having fewer people in a sane, orderly fashion, rather than through wars, mass murder, and climate-caused natural disasters.

Instead, the argument is confined to the "need" to have cleaner energy that allows for expansion of economic output forever. Good luck. What this feeble attitude reveals is an intellectual cowardice, a conventional wisdom that dares not consider the only real option that we have: to change fundamentally the way we live on this planet.

Al Gore provided a start, a first breakthrough in facing our common predicament. But he is a dedicated growth forever advocate. Now we need someone of similar stature to take the next step, and to expose the growth fallacies that keep us headed in a suicidal direction. Herman Daly has for decades made the case for a steady state economy, but no one listens. It would take someone on the level of pope or president to make the issue part of the public consciousness.

Since this is not likely to happen any time soon, the consequences of infinite growth will get more serious. The planet is not able to support infinite growth of output, and won't. We will have lower output, a lower population, and a sustainable relationship with the ecosystem one way or the other. I prefer doing it the easy way, but the hard way is almost inevitable. The controlling elites on this planet are too greedy and cowardly to face the situation. Maybe Salon can start talking it up. Herman Daly is pretty easy to find. He's at the University of Maryland.