| ▲ | Plankaluel 2 hours ago | |
Regarding wind and mountains. Some perspective from someone from neighboring Tyrol: The reason there is so little wind power: Probably the same reason the western, alpine parts of Austria have basically zero wind power - and why neighbouring Carinthia recently voted in a referendum to ban it completely. People who live in the Alps generally don't like seeing the mountains altered. It is treated almost as sacrilege. And since these areas are heavily dependent on tourism, where the appeal rests on a romantic, Disney-fied fantasy of wild, untamed nature, locals worry that turbines would make the region less attractive to tourists. Of course, this "untouched" landscape is largely a fiction in the first place: most of it looks the way it does precisely because people have lived in it and shaped it for centuries. | ||
| ▲ | s1artibartfast 8 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
yeah, some it has been shaped by man, but that does not negate or invalidate the fact that they like it the way that it is. My clean dinner table is completely artificial, but that doesnt mean I should be neutral to someone placing a bowl of shit on it. | ||