Ray's Thought for the Day - A Motley Crew of Birders and the King Ranch
Keeping these parts properly electrified is important. That’s why we need wind farms. But wind farms require an Environmental Assessment (EA). Yet there are no actual laws governing the erection of wind farms. So that’s a win-win situation for electrification. Plus the birders that get jobs performing the EAs just get to record the usual facts. Yes. One are two endangered bird territories may be impacted by the construction, but those birds can just go somewhere else. Besides, there are no laws protecting that habitat encompassed by the those endangered bird territories.
Everyone is plenty happy with those sort of EAs.
Except, for ludites who want US to freeze in the dark without even a lit up computer monitor for company. Like, for example, those ludite motley birders and the King Ranch owners who are whining about having a windmill farm located in the King Ranch parts. What are they thinking?
Somebody needs to pay all of them a bunch of money. That will shut them up.
Yes. US needs to put up those wind farms smack dab in the middle of migratory bird landfall sites all along the coast. Then, US can do a study to see if any of those surviving miserable birds that don’t get clobbered by the windmills, are smart enough to migrate somewhere else. Windmills, all along the coast, shall eventually be good for those migratory birds. For example, natural selection should eventually produce smart birds capable of evading the windmills. Or, if you don’t “believe” in natural selection, then you might believe it is time for those birds to go extinct, anyway. See, a win-win situation.
OK. The solution is, get that motley crew of birders on the US payroll to do the EA. Then, provide the King Ranch owners with a few more millions. That ought to do it. Yep. Everyone is happy. US don’t freeze in the dark, the motley crew get temporary jobs, the King Ranch owners get richer, and the birds get smarter, or die.
Everyone is plenty happy with those sort of EAs.
Except, for ludites who want US to freeze in the dark without even a lit up computer monitor for company. Like, for example, those ludite motley birders and the King Ranch owners who are whining about having a windmill farm located in the King Ranch parts. What are they thinking?
Somebody needs to pay all of them a bunch of money. That will shut them up.
Yes. US needs to put up those wind farms smack dab in the middle of migratory bird landfall sites all along the coast. Then, US can do a study to see if any of those surviving miserable birds that don’t get clobbered by the windmills, are smart enough to migrate somewhere else. Windmills, all along the coast, shall eventually be good for those migratory birds. For example, natural selection should eventually produce smart birds capable of evading the windmills. Or, if you don’t “believe” in natural selection, then you might believe it is time for those birds to go extinct, anyway. See, a win-win situation.
OK. The solution is, get that motley crew of birders on the US payroll to do the EA. Then, provide the King Ranch owners with a few more millions. That ought to do it. Yep. Everyone is happy. US don’t freeze in the dark, the motley crew get temporary jobs, the King Ranch owners get richer, and the birds get smarter, or die.
posted by ray pistrum at Monday, January 14, 2008
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