Sometimes, wisdom comes with age...
RESPONDING to India Hollow’s letter entitled: “The answer is so clear cut on climate change”. Whilst I agree with the critical responses from other readers to her letter – may I humbly suggest that we are forgetting one very relevant factor here? We have all been 16 and recognise that, at that age, we all think we know best and the older generation are possibly a lot of old fogies and don’t know anything!
Amazingly, India actually criticises David Gabriel (March 23) for presuming to mention her age – but it was she who brought up this subject in the first place!
Sometimes, wisdom comes with age, India – as you may find out. She mentions ‘propaganda’ in her letter. In my experience, no other generation more than hers has been subjected to wholesale indoctrination regarding renewable energy. In schools and colleges, youngsters have been given only one view – the world is coming to an end unless we cover it in wind turbines and solar panels.
Does she believe that humans matter above any other creatures we share the planet with? If she is a regular reader of this paper, she must know the facts that wind turbines kill millions of birds, bats and insects all over the world – and have done so for the last 60 years – yet climate change has only increased. How does she explain that?
She must know that wind turbines are not green, clean or renewable – but are buried in the ground when finished with for future generations like hers to clean up. How does she explain that? She must know the costs to third world countries from mining to produce solar, turbines and her electronic gadgets?
Slave labour, children from four years upwards used in horrific conditions and their environment wrecked. How does she explain that, or is that not something that is even mentioned or discussed at her school?
Is she even aware that planning conditions are that wind turbines must be removed at the end of life? Really! This decommissioning is a very expensive process. It leaves the massive reinforced concrete bases (weighing hundreds of tons for large turbines) in the ground.
In thousands of years’ time, people will wonder why on earth her generation thought this would save the planet and blame Extinction
Rebellion and the climate zealots who worshiped the climate change religion.
Has she understood and does she care that our oceans are full of plastic, poisons, human rubbish, over-fishing, huge liners carrying thousands of people – and now our beautiful marine mammals have to contend with mile upon mile of industrial wind factories – and dying because of it?
Over 30 years ago, I was in Muscat Bay, Oman, when suddenly it seemed like all the dolphins in the world had gathered. Perhaps it was an annual party – or an abundance of fish? They were actually jumping over the bow of our speedboat. There were literally thousands of these mesmerising, delightful little marine mammals. The oceans are their homes – what right does India think we have to screw that up as well as on land?
I’d like to hear her view rather than a quote from IPCC or others that are clearly indoctrinating these young people. To quote the late, great, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Richard Feynman: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts”.
Joanne Bell Barnstaple, Devon