FAILURES! Are we a spiritually bankrupt people?
How much longer can we choose to stand here idle and refuse to accept an opportunity which has been freely given to us for our use? How many more days, months and years are we going to let go by in wasteful ruin a gift placed long ago in our hand for our use and enjoyment? How much longer will selfish men and women continue to stand in opposition to the use of rotor fans to utilize the power of the wind?
The common winds can and ought to be put to use for the betterment of all Mankind. The seas of this Earth-World and,now, even the spaced above and that beyond it has been long gone as a special enclaves held in psych-thrall by selfish, posturing, individuals who deem a special attainment to hold wind as a hostage to their concept of supposed beauty. How much longer can we look at a blessing which is of apparent for all o use an not make good use of it?
Much of the talk about "beauty" is used as a clumsy facade -much like the cheap, gaudy paper signs and banners protesters wave so senselessly before themselves when marching in parades against change. Certainly those very persons would not say the ugly towers we call skyscrapers are all seemly and things of outstanding beauty. Critics concede that,in such structures, tending to be higher and higher, more grotesque and garish, redeeming qualities of usefulness which make them acceptable and worthwhile. Many structures are ugly, and become more acceptable with their usefulness.
We need the energy we can generate from wind-driven units. Be they located on mountain ridges, at various levels in the newest high rise b buildings or on islands offshore.
It would be different, perhaps, if it were something new an different we were contemplating but we are talking of doing that which we have done before - and successfully so as long as it remained practical to do so. A mere glance at the thousands of windmills in England and Northern Europe illustrates their role in draining the flooded fen areas and bring forth farm able, fertile fields. We,even while bettering life for everyone with a less costly energy source,could also bring about economic sanity in the fossil fuel industries.
Standing as a modern symbol of greed and avarice the person who, today, sees the wind blowing across his "his"mountain, "his" lake,"his" cabin, house,palace or rancho grande hold our future as hostage to his personal likings. He hold title to much of that which he does own as a result, no doubt, of his family's earnings - profits from from skyscraper-housed businesses, a lines of oil field derricks, miles of power lines and gleaming, television and radio station, communication towers springing up everywhere and vying only with newest higher and brighter fast food food advertising signs for sky space.
We need to "lighten up" and "be real" about this question of who owns the wind.
A.L.M. June 19, 2005 [c519wds]
