{"id":22218,"date":"2012-07-21T23:16:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T03:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=22218"},"modified":"2012-07-22T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T14:34:47","slug":"victims-of-wind-energy-conference-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2012\/victims-of-wind-energy-conference-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"“Victims of wind energy” conference, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it time to hold another wind energy conference—for the shepherds of the land?<\/h3>\n

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—Calvin Luther Martin, PhD<\/p>\n

How many hundreds of groups are there, around the world, fighting wind turbines in their backyards? \u00a0The answer is, “lots.” \u00a0Talk about a grassroots movement that turned into a whirlwind of fury and outrage in every country and every community where Big Wind has dared set foot.<\/p>\n

Remember David & Goliath? \u00a0Imagine Goliath as a 2.5 MW bully towering higher than the Statue of Liberty, with mammoth rotating blades slicing the air at 200 mph. \u00a0Nothing could stop this apocalyptic beast—so thought his corporate sponsors.<\/p>\n

Except they failed to calculate the improbable: \u00a0the shepherd boy who wasn’t corporate at all. \u00a0The kid whose infallible weapon was that he was tied to the land. \u00a0David was a product of that landscape. \u00a0His home. \u00a0His fields. His hills. \u00a0He knew their powers. \u00a0They filled him.<\/p>\n

He called those powers, “Jehovah.”<\/p>\n

The kid was not going to let this giant jackass destroy his landscape. \u00a0The Spirit of the Earth detested the Philistine monster, and the Spirit filled the shepherd boy with power and courage—and one helluva aim.<\/p>\n

Against all odds, David knew he could take down the monster. \u00a0One smooth river-stone hurled from a homemade slingshot, miraculously guided in its trajectory by the Spirit—and the towering, bellowing thing was felled.<\/p>\n

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For eight years I have been sitting before this computer screen, corresponding with shepherds all over the world. \u00a0Shepherds armed with \u00a0nothing more than a smooth river-stone and slingshot and, somehow, filled with the holy fire of the land they occupy—these people have been bringing down Big Wind.<\/p>\n

It is time, I think, for the “shepherds of the land” to convene. \u00a0From all over the world. \u00a0Convene and tell their story—the story of what a colossal obscenity Goliath in fact is. \u00a0Obscene to birds and bats and all other domestic creatures and wildlife and habitat and ridge lines and fields and rangelands and marshlands and people’s homes and health and sanity and property value. \u00a0Obscene to basic principles of physics and engineering and economics.<\/p>\n

A thunderous obscenity and altogether a hoax.<\/p>\n

Shepherds of the land, let us convene. \u00a0Confer. \u00a0Somewhere. \u00a0Somehow. \u00a0Let us brainstorm about how to do this. \u00a0All ideas are on the table. \u00a0We are a genuine movement. \u00a0Let us gather to celebrate and grow this movement.<\/p>\n

Withal, may we keep it simple and cheap. \u00a0Remember, we’re all just shepherds. \u00a0Our tools are simple. \u00a0Our strength, however, is legendary. \u00a0History will remember us as it remembers young David—the improbable hero.<\/p>\n

I titled this “victims of wind energy.” \u00a0Was David a victim of Goliath? \u00a0Nope! \u00a0He brought the son of a bitch to a full stop.<\/p>\n

We will convene as shepherds of the land, not victims of corporate bullying. \u00a0The difference is consequential.<\/p>\n

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Is it time to hold another wind energy conference—for the shepherds of the land? —Calvin Luther Martin, PhD How many hundreds of groups are there, around the world, fighting wind turbines in their backyards? \u00a0The answer is, “lots.” \u00a0Talk about a grassroots movement that turned into a whirlwind of fury and outrage in every country and every community where Big Wind has dared set foot. Remember David & Goliath? \u00a0Imagine Goliath as a 2.5 MW bully towering higher than the Statue of Liberty, with mammoth rotating blades slicing the air at 200 mph. \u00a0Nothing could stop this apocalyptic beast—so thought his corporate sponsors. Except they failed to calculate the improbable: \u00a0the shepherd boy who wasn’t corporate at all. \u00a0The kid whose infallible weapon was that he was tied to the land. \u00a0David was a product of that landscape. \u00a0His home. \u00a0His fields. His hills. \u00a0He knew their powers. \u00a0They filled him. He called those powers, “Jehovah.” The kid was not going to let this giant jackass destroy his landscape. \u00a0The Spirit of the Earth detested the Philistine monster, and the Spirit filled the shepherd boy with power and courage—and one helluva aim. Against all odds, David knew he could take down the monster. \u00a0One smooth river-stone hurled from a homemade slingshot, miraculously guided in its trajectory by the Spirit—and the towering, bellowing thing was felled. For eight years I have been sitting before this computer screen, corresponding with shepherds all over the world. \u00a0Shepherds armed with \u00a0nothing more than a smooth river-stone and slingshot and, somehow, filled with the holy fire of the land they occupy—these people have been bringing down Big Wind. It is time, I think, for the “shepherds of the land” to convene. \u00a0From all over the world. \u00a0Convene and tell their story—the story of what aRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[171,157,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}