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When I was growing up, David Bellamy was a familiar and friendly face on TV - an environmentalist with an infectious enthusiasm for wildlife which he effortlessly passed on to the kids who watched him.
But for the last decade, his main public role is that of a climate change denier and vehement opponent of wind farms. The fact that he is a well-known face in an environmental and conservation capacity is used to attempt to give credence to reactionary and short-sighted views. He is wheeled out as some sort of “expert” by groups who don’t want turbines to spoil the view out of their bedroom windows.
As a culture we are extremely dependent on the use of electricity, and that energy needs to be generated somehow. Not only do fossil fuels cause environmental damage, but they are also both scarce and frequently under the control of regimes which don’t see eye-to-eye with our own ways of life. In light of that, it is absolutely clear that we need to be able to produce electricity in a sustainable way from renewable resources, and to be as self-sufficient in energy as we can be.
The infrastructure required to generate and distribute electricity is not pretty, but it is essential if we are to continue using it the way we do. And yes, that will include turbines and pylons in some of the countryside. What is the alternative? Coal mines and their power stations, oil refineries and nuclear reactors are all hideous blots on the landscape as well as producing unclean or unsafe energy. But of course, they tend to be further away from the homes of those who are better off - built in somebody else’s “back yard”, and conveniently ignored by those who campaign against wind power.

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David Bellamy is a knob who really needs to shut his gob - the darling of the NIMBY clan who want to see wind turbines banned. He uses his celebrity status in order to lecture and berate us. Why won’t these reactionary fools see the price we’ve paid for fossil fuels? The future simply has to be in clean, renewable energy. If you don’t like the look of wind turbines then perhaps you find beauty in coal mines? Do nuclear power stations look aesthetic? No - so stop being so pathetic. We must use ways to generate sustainable power before it’s too late.

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from The Cracks Start Appearing, released December 19, 2014

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