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The ravages of nature are shocking and shameful.
Offshore wind power is not an ecological solution, writes Laura Saetveit Miles, an American immigrant to Bergen. Photo: Suzanne Skintveit
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Laura Saetveit Miles
Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen
My husband, Our daughter (9) and I moved from Michigan, USA. USA, A Bergen seven years ago when I got a permanent position at UiB.
We are doing well here. We learned Norwegian, made lots of friends and bought houses, and of course we love to celebrate May 17th. We have also fallen in love with outdoor life, a true Norwegian tradition.
Our friends and families in the United States envy our safe and stable lives. and the incredibly beautiful images of the mountains and fjords that we share with them. Many have visited us as tourists.
But one thing surprises everyone: Norwegians apparently have no problem destroying intact nature, which you love so much.
I think in particular in wind energy, which is now being developed in much of the country. The mountains are crushed and covered with concrete and 250-meter-high wind turbines, in the name of the green shift. It’s shocking, embarrassing, embarrassing, but it’s not a shame to turn around, folks.
Yes, we have to fight climate change and a transition away from oil, but wind power is not a “green solution” at all. A typical industrial area for wind power in the desert requires many kilometers of construction road, up to several miles for the largest parks and flat plots of thousands of square meters.
Ants are unearthed, fish water is replenished, and mountain peaks are removed. Forever! It cannot be “fixed” afterwards.
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When you say yes to wind power, I mean you say goodbye to the tour area. Without walking, without camping, without skiing. Ice throws thrown from the turbine blades in the winter mean that you cannot ski several hundred feet from a turbine without the risk of being seriously injured or killed by large crunchy pieces of ice like a dining table.
And he says goodbye to foreign tourists, who do not want to visit a noisy industrial area instead of the tranquility of the desert. It is worth saving the intrinsic value of nature itself, but we should also save the mountains for us and all the peoples of the world to enjoy and enjoy forever.
There are alternatives to wind power. Hydropower can be made more efficient, and wave and solar power can be expanded.
Unfortunately we hope Americans say nature is being destroyed by corruption fueled by capitalism. This is how it is in the United States now, and what is happening there is incredibly sad. But here? In the good, happy, social democratic Norway The land of mountains and fjords?
You are wasting your legacy. My Norwegian ancestors left this country three generations ago to emigrate to the United States, like so many others. Although you have received a legacy directly from your ancestors: a beautiful, beautiful and precious desert.
Look after that. Leave the precious legacy to children and the future.
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- Interested in the case of wind energy? See also the BT collection page.
