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"local groups like "Save Our Foreshore" concerned about damage to the environment and the tourism industry"
We get this with every conceivable energy project, regardless of the energy source - wind, hydro, oil shale, coal, you name it. But if we don't have intense energy sources, we wind up back in the horse-and-buggy days, trying to eke out mere survival from erratic, ultra-low-efficiency plant photosynthesis. And if there is a Big Enough Dry under such conditions, we starve to death.
So I see a bit of a dilemma. I wonder how the mass tourism industry proposes even to survive if they have their own way. How many ultra-high-profit nearly-unpaid dimwit jobs changing bedsheets in hotels will remain available, if the tourists fail to arrive because they can no longer travel quickly and inexpensively? Maybe some bits of the tourism industry will be needing to make other arrangements to earn their living.
what's the objection to the wind in middle of the oceans?
I guess the importance of the biodiversity of the greatest coral reef on the planet does pale in comparison with jobs that tourism may or may not bring in. Talk about myopic! "Maybe some bits of the tourism industry will be needing to make other arrangements to earn their living." Yeah, like learning to be stewards of those natural resources that are fundamental to the viability to our real natural resources such as a healthy marine environment, would you be willing to venture a guess as to the economic and survival value of something like that?! Who gives a F**K about tourism if you don't have that.