[at-l] Dinner, Dessert, and Wind Farms

[RoksnRoots@aol.com (RoksnRoots@aol.com)]

In a message dated 4/12/2002 10:24:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rafe.bustin@verizon.net writes:


> Wish I was with you (and the ATC) on the wind-farm issue, but I'm not.
> 
> If we want the world to start developing and using alternative energy 
> sources, we can't be engaging in NIMBYism.
> 


     ***  If this were simply an issue of NIMBYism it could possibly make 
sense. But it isn't. It involves more than just nimbyism, it involves the 
Appalachian Trail Project's goals and how that translates into regional 
planning. I know some in here will fight any attempt to try and establish 
just what that goal is and our responsibility towards it as Trail members. 
But to just simply call it hypocrisy is to leave out the entire purpose of 
the AT. You just can't be allowed to do that when giving a Trail opinion. 

     Realize that every condo developer and land clearer who intends to 
damage the AT's wild quality in the future could use your logic to justify 
themselves. If that makes me unpopular for saying it, I suggest it's the AT 
you have the problem with and not me. The main AT mission in our time is 
preserving untouched and unaltered wilds. That is the most threatened thing 
in our age. Alternate energy will not suffer because the AT was preserved. In 
fact, it may be bolstered by people finally realizing we take this AT thing 
seriously...

    ( Isn't shunning advocacy a form of NIMBYism?) 


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