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Does wind power cause visual pollution in your opinion? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by NorthWestWind to c/asklemmy

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I remember reading somewhere (probably my high school textbook) that one of the reasons people don't like wind power being built is they cause visual pollution.

In my opinion, I think it would be pretty cool to just look out my window and see a giant windmill there, the opposite of visual pollution.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's difficult to consider them pollution even if we were to accept the subjective opinion on displeasing aesthetics.

The pollution we're all concerned about tends to be:

Physically harmful
Difficult to confine/localize/avoid/reverse
An externality the economy doesn't sufficiently account for
A burden that's unevenly/unfairly distributed across society

Even light pollution, which is arguably barely physically harmful, has all of the remaining qualities (or nearly) for sure.

If these qualities even apply wind generators at all, they do so very weakly. They can be moved/unbuilt, the "free market" is pricing them cheaper by the day, and if you really don't like looking at them, it's not impractical to avoid them.