{"id":349,"date":"2013-11-18T22:36:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T22:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2015-11-22T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T23:18:09","slug":"windmills-and-the-don-quixote-of-the-modern-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/windmills-and-the-don-quixote-of-the-modern-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Windmills and the Don Quixote of the Modern Age"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Honor\u00c3\u00a9
Honor\u00c3\u00a9 Daumier: “Don Quixote”. Those modern day Quixote’s who fight against the windmills, the only clean energy available on the planet and then call themselves eco warriors, or environmentalists, really get my goat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He rides again, against the windmills,
\nOr at least his children do…
\nModern day Don Quixote’s
\nWho to their cause are true.<\/p>\n

“Windmills kill birds and bats you know,
\nThey are big corporate toys,
\nWho make from them big profits
\nAnd I cant sleep a wink with the noise…”<\/p>\n

The cows are afraid of them,
\nThey will not eat the grass,
\nThey no longer moo at us,
\nWhen by them they pass.<\/p>\n

The midges are getting massacred,
\nThey too have rights you know,
\nTo fly the sky to get eaten by birds,
\nRather than killed by windmills when a wind does blow.<\/p>\n

Arra, they look so ugly,
\nWaving their big arms there in the sky,
\nSure, they will scare away the aliens,
\nWho our planet will fly by.<\/p>\n

A husband recently blamed them,
\nSomeone somewhere said,
\nFor making his manhood fail to work,
\nHe now is crap in bed.<\/p>\n

So they charge against the windmills,
\nLuddites who piss agains the Wind,
\nThe only clean energy available on earth…
\nThey against environmentalism have sinned!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Background:
\nAs with the rest of the world, Ireland is in a tizzy over windfarms. As a lifelong environmentalist, Im all for them, and cannot understand why folks are against them. For many its a form of protest against big government and power companies who will profit, giving them a voice to shout, when they are too cowardly to shout about the real issues that rob our countries blind, a form of lipservice to activism I have no time for.<\/address>\n
Windfarms are clean energy, a million times safer and better than nuclear, and a thousand times cleaner and better for the earth than fossil fuels, even better for the earth than biomass, which produces pollution…<\/address>\n
This poem, it wont make me popular!!!<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He rides again, against the windmills, Or at least his children do… Modern day Don Quixote’s Who to their cause are true. “Windmills kill birds and bats you know, They are big corporate toys, Who make from them big profits And I cant sleep a wink with the noise…” The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[109],"tags":[1635,2541,570,2345,569,818,2542,1870,131],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bog","tag-ecology","tag-environmentalism","tag-ireland","tag-irish-windmill-debate","tag-politics-2","tag-quixote","tag-wind","tag-windmills","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-5D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":450,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/windmills-wave-at-the-world-in-wonder\/","url_meta":{"origin":349,"position":0},"title":"Windmills Wave at the World in Wonder","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th December 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Childlike waving, standing, live scarecrows, In excited fury and the breeze grows, Arms spinning wildly, and then slow, According as the wind blows... 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