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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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[–] TIMMAY 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Im not sure I even agree that visual pollution should be a real thing. People like to pretend that there is a divide between man-made structures and "nature" but humans are animals and we construct our environment out of natural materials. Humans ARE natural and the things we make are not separate from nature. Obviously that doesn't remove our responsibility to avoid causing overall harm with toxic chemicals that pollute or structures that destabilize equilibriums, but that being said I dont think we should have this mentality about our structures being an inherent detriment to the area we make them in, and wind farms seem like a good example of good structures in a good environment to me. End rant.

[–] jpreston2005 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] TIMMAY 2 points 10 months ago

okay yeah that is totally fair, societal pollution