No Exit: Ecological Limits and Climate Change

We look at our world at the brink of destruction caused by human activity and its influence on our climate and ecological change. Greenhouse gas emissions come from natural resources and of course human activity. Cutting down of fossil fuels seems to be an obvious answer to help reduce these emissions into our atmosphere, but why such a slow movement to do so? In what way can this be done?

Wind Power. Wind power is the conversion of wind energy to some sort of useful form such as electricity. Cutting the use of fossil fuels to create electricity greatly reduces greenhouse gas emissions and is clean, widely available, plentiful and renewable.

Wind power enables energy and electricity to be produced in a way that is not going to harm the environment or contribute to the devastation of the atmosphere.


However, there are some disadvantages and concerns involving wind power. One of the most prominent of these concerns is that the landscape seems to be ruined in the eyes of some. Wind farms tend to be quite large and take up a lot of space, but the land the wind farms are set on is nearly undisturbed. This land is still readily usable for agricultural reasons or for any other purpose really.

Originally, the costs of a wind farm was great but has since dropped significantly and will continue to drop as the number of wind farms increases. Yet another big concern is with the noise. The sound that is generated from the windmills is constantly up for debate amongst residents living near the wind farms. That's right. There is a hesitation for wind farms and a possibly cleaner environment and more stable atmosphere due to the noise.

It seems quite problematic that we're in a world that is more accepting of the idea of our climate and environment being at the brink of havoc from our own activity, than one that is willing to compromise the slightly bothersome noise created from a wind turbine. A system that is put in place to help our environment and hopefully cut back the destruction that is being created by our affairs.