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Governments and commerce will never be able to please everbody and I'm afraid that this is an issue where the mass must benefit. The number of people protesting here in the U.K rural areas where all of the proposed wind farms will go is relatively small. We are talking very sparsely populated area.
So you ask yourself the question: do you forgo the benfit to tens and hundreds of thousands of people because less than a hudred people can see the turbine or are dangerously close to a reactor?
The answer is no. You have to benifit the many at the expense of the few. Tough. Politics has been like this for thousands of years.
To address your first question - well, we live in a capitalist democratic society where we our only interested in out own advancement - it's every man for himself. Yes we are all NIMBY's but if it's not happening to me, I don't give a S**T. Move house. We have a choice.
Marco.
The answer to your rhetorical question is "YES".
No rational person will give up what his his for the "benefit of the many". That notion died with Communism. There may be some sort of free market exchange. But to forcibly take from the few to "benefit" the many is coercion. It is fascist, and un-American
I luv listening to americans that knock communism while their agriculture system and its subsidies have been the WTO's greatest battle for a generation.
The socialists reign. And btw real farmers live in Brazil ... not on subsidies: http://trendlines.ca/#Brazil
I'm not a farmer.
I live on subsidized, taxpayer coerced medical insurance money. Not my choice.
You're right. America is a socialist paradise. For the corporate socialists, that is. Used to be, that was called "facism."
Main beneficiaries? Halliburton, ConAgra, Raytheon -- so many more.
Are you aware of the Eminent Domain issue that has been quietly simmering in the USA the last few years?
The crux of the issue is that the Supreme Court has upheld the right of local governments to condemn and sieze private property not only for public good, but for PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT. The tenuous argument is that higher-end development will suck more tax dollars into city hall than modest 45 year old homes, and therefore it is "public good".
The whole concept utterly sucks, and of course this is another issue that the NSM does its best to keep off the radar screen.