Into The New Year.
Posted: Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
4 comments |
There is a full new year before us. I have recently had more computer problems sorted out and this time I hope that I shall be online for a good long time.
The festive season festivities are behind us now and the year is advancing. In Tiree at one time we celebrated the old new year on the 13th of January; the day had advanced then by a noticable degree; as the old people would say: by one step by a strutting cockrel.
As I prepare this blog it is a sunny day. Other days as I look out the window the aspect can be less pleasing. Didn't some one say once that you do not actually see clearly in the mirror but darkly. This must be equally true when one looks through a window on a gloomy day.
Indeed I'd hate to be considered a hargbinger of dulness around the world or even in our minds. But in spite of this there seems to be such a boiling pot of unrest all around. I hope nobody would have the audacity to say no.
Our planet has been well explored and all that has been learned is far from edifying as I consider aspects such as Climate Change and Global Warming.
Honestly, should we really be objecting so vehemently about the erecting of wind farms up and down the country. If this has an adverse effect on the tourist trade, for example, should we not consider more seriously the role of our country in a time of desparate need even world wide. Sacrifices have got to be made and I hardly see that wind turbines can be scars more than the country has sustained over the years already.
What scars, may I ask, are future generations likely to come up against even in spirit and mind if we neglect to have a go.
Posted on Island Wanderer at 01:42
Comments
Heaven forbid that the only issue should be whether we 'have a go' or not ... I'm very much in favour of 'having a go' ... I think the issues we have to look at are 1) are windfarms the best way to 'have a go', given their technical limitations (ie don;t work if there's a lot of wind), and 2) exactly who benefits from the destruction of beautiful places (and it sure as heck aint the hoi polloi!) ... There are many more issues here than a simple selfish Not In My Backyard, you know ...!
soaplady from holding herself back a little
i comment but dont get posted. Is it broken or is it heavy handed filtering?
whats wrong with this from glasgow
Breaking news suggests Parliament is about to reject the Barvas windfarm. Perhaps they are right, I am generally in favour of renewables but this was too large a project in my opinion. As for our world being well explored; it could be argued that we know more about space than we do do about the abyssal depths of the oceans and a recent expedition from Orkney to Rockall made the claim that fewer people have stood on the summit of that particular pimple than have been to the moon. Perhaps an exaggerated claim but indicative of how much of our planet we have not explored.
Hyper-Borean from Beyond the blue horizon
Yes...X2...keep on trying! We all do.
Flying Cat from feeling dogged
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