Baffling
Catching upon some of James Delingpole's work for The Telegraph in which he notes the industrial blight that is about to be unnecessarily perpetrated upon the people of Wales in the form of wind turbines. Beautiful countryside will become disfigured, for the purpose of gaining an unreliable energy source. When you think of how many people live on an island as small as the U.K, it's remarkable such tracts of virtually unmolested land exist at all. But they do, and we'll mar them in the name of being green.
Of course, the irony of this is that we can't drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because if it's "pristine-ness." That the actual area where oil will be extracted is possibly the ugliest natural place on planet earth, that no human being would ever willingly venture there were it not for oil, that the entire industrial footprint would be the size of a medium-sized airport seem not to matter to these zealots who seem to think that all the trouble in the world stems from American oil companies.
The idea of "American Exceptionalism" has been discussed a bit recently, and rests on a belief that we are, at the core of who we are and how we govern ourselves... different. It used to mean different in terms of being more free. Unfortunately, today we are losing many of our personal and economic freedoms, and find that the only area where we are truly different from everyone else is our unwillingness to use our natural energy resources. A tragedy is unfolding before us, and future historians, though they will have the entire record available to them, will shake their heads in wonder as they strap on their skates to get their exercise on the frozen Thames.
Of course, the irony of this is that we can't drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because if it's "pristine-ness." That the actual area where oil will be extracted is possibly the ugliest natural place on planet earth, that no human being would ever willingly venture there were it not for oil, that the entire industrial footprint would be the size of a medium-sized airport seem not to matter to these zealots who seem to think that all the trouble in the world stems from American oil companies.
The idea of "American Exceptionalism" has been discussed a bit recently, and rests on a belief that we are, at the core of who we are and how we govern ourselves... different. It used to mean different in terms of being more free. Unfortunately, today we are losing many of our personal and economic freedoms, and find that the only area where we are truly different from everyone else is our unwillingness to use our natural energy resources. A tragedy is unfolding before us, and future historians, though they will have the entire record available to them, will shake their heads in wonder as they strap on their skates to get their exercise on the frozen Thames.
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