Letters / First they ignore you…
In the 28 June Shetland Times article Trustees Vote to Approve £6.3milion for Viking Windfarm, councillor Wills made an alarming statement.
He pronounced that banal excuses to prevent the wind farm such as ‘not liking the look of them’ and ‘too close to people’s houses’ would deprive our children, grandchildren and possibly great grandchildren of “several hundred millions of pounds”.
I have a horror that this will produce generations who believe it is their right to have wealth, possessions and facilities instead of learning that it comes at a price.
Today I have been speaking with an elderly lady who will be hugely affected by the wind farm. She is distraught and frightened about what will happen to her as there is no way that she can live (exist?) in the wind farm.
So do we really want to rear our children with the qualities of avarice, selfishness and lack of empathy for others as promoted by Dr Wills?
Wind farm opponents have been sneered at for raising genuine concerns about this development, so I will leave them with the following;
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
Evelyn Morrison
Setter
Weisdale
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