Our resources can be put to better use to arrest global warming. Has anybody taken a big picture look at fossil fuel consumption for electricity, transportation, industry, residential heating & air conditioning combined to say that wind is the best way to achieve the needed GHG cuts in the long term considering the environment, costs and fuel supply? Instead of the big grid power projects we should support conservation, energy efficiency, at home generation like micro wind and solar or are we at the end of that rope already?

The Germans have found that it is costly to get just 6% of their energy from wind. They are building high efficiency coal. Britain’s gas and electricity regulator now wants Britain’s Renewables Obligation scheme scrapped because it has cost consumers $billions and “Worse still, the emissions savings delivered are small and almost unbelievably expensive.”

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/article2192850.ece

It takes economic activity to pay the bills. We are stepping on to a treadmill that takes us nowhere but keeps us running and generating needless employment. The economic model needs to be overhauled. Why not just sit in the park? Read a book? Go for a walk? But then the technocrats wouldn’t have jobs and the ENRONs wouldn’t profit from get rich schemes. So they keep us running. “Build the mountain. They will have to come”. One child dies every 5 seconds from hunger related illness.
For all the $trillions of credit and wealth we generate and $hundreds of billions being committed to green initiatives, we are misdirecting efforts at a real and horrendous cost.

The Mayans built monuments to the weather gods and offered them human sacrifices.
They got it wrong. Their civilization fell apart and great cities were abandoned.