Wind farms vs sprawl

File under: rants, sustainability, Wellington

This letter of mine was published in the DomPost today:

How ironic that residents of Paremata and Whitby complain about the “visual intrusion” that a wind farm would allegedly bring (June 28). Could a wind farm ever be as much of a blot on the landscape as these sprawling suburbs, with their McMansions, big-box shopping malls and hectares of roadway? The only things uglier are the motorways that they demand to support their unsustainable, land-hungry, car-dependent lifestyles.