Doncha just love the hypocrisy of the Green Left?
Windmills
-- PoliPundit
Jonah Goldberg notes an interesting story:
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A Mighty Wind
Where’s the rich liberal sacrifice?
....The basic situation is that some environmentalists and a company called Cape Wind want to build 130 windmills way out in the ocean to help offset energy costs in the region — and to satisfy all those demands that we find substitutes for evil fossil fuels.
Meanwhile, other environmentalists and conservationists are eager to stop the wind farm from being built, largely because it will mar the view from their extravagant coastal homes. Leading this charge is Sen. Ted Kennedy, whose famous compound would have a nice view of the turbines. (To be fair, though most people say the turbines would be hard to see except on very clear days, and even then they’d be tiny blips on the horizon.)
But Ted wants no such thing spoiling cocktail hour on the veranda. So he drafted his famously green nephew Robert to join the fight — even though Robert is a senior lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, which strongly backs the project.
Obviously, the reason this is so much fun is that the stakes are so small for everybody except a handful of people who deserve to lose.
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When a reporter for The New York Times Magazine called Walter Cronkite, a windmill opponent, and asked him about the proposal, the retired newsman bristled at the suggestion that this was all about selfishness. But, he had to confess, that’s exactly what it is.
“The problem really is Nimbyism,” he conceded by telephone, “and it bothers me a great deal that I find myself in this position. I’m all for these (windmills), but there must be areas that are far less valuable than this place is.” The reporter prodded, and he said maybe the California desert would work. Isn’t that a bit far away to supply Cape Cod? Well, he added, “Inland New England would substitute just as well.” In fact, any place but here would do just fine.
It seemed to dawn on Cronkite that such honesty wasn’t serving his cause or himself: He interrupted his train of thought and implored the reporter, “Be kind to an old man.”
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