[Fournier]

I think we're missing the point that that this is in fact the fate of all life on earth we're talking about here.
Yes, windfarms can cause serious damage to bird populations and some peple may find them unnattractive.
However if things aren't done then there won't be any bird populations whatsoever and we'll be too busy being dead to worry about anything being unnattractive. I'm sure that there'll always be complaints when trying to go for any source of energy; soon we'll here complaints of tidal energy damaging the populations of rare fish species and we'll never get anywhere. I find it unbelievable that people complain so much when those in power finally try to increase our dependency on renewable energy sources that won't destroy the world.
Maybe my tone is too harsh. However I can't help but feeling that I'm probably the youngest person on this forum, and it's my generation that's going to suffer from yours and the one before's reluctance to support what few environment-friendly initiatives there are.
This is the future of the world we're talking about. Yes it would be disastrous to see declines in eagle and Merlin populations, however this must be more desirable than losing them all together. Or are you all obsessed with maintaining life so that you yourselves get to see it, rather than preserving it for future generations (again, sorry for the harsh tone).
It may seem tempting to say let's look at other energy sources, but we're being given opportunities now to get on with it and save the world - why stand in their way?
Maybe this won't go down well, but I couldn't let continuous umming and aahing go on when it completely misses the point of how urgent this situation actually is. I'm sorry if I've just lost a lot of friends, but someone had to say it.