Re: green unintended consequences

Goodness.  That article is great at picking out very specific negative instances, particularly the Allentown piece.  All wind turbine projects are bad or a failure because of Allentown? Strange logic.  I do have to agree with the Ethanol paragraph though.  There should have been a lot more long-term thought and discusion on the ramifications of moving the focus of growing of crops from food to ethanol.  Anything and everything we do has effects.  The butterfly effect comes to mind at how a micro change can affect a major change.  It's difficult to always know if in the end the right decision is made, but that does not mean that we should sit and become immovable in our choices to better the planet based on our fear of what could happen.  I consider many of these changes "growing pains" in trying to do the right thing.  We'll have snafus, mistakes, missteps, etc., but in the end we'll be moving in the right direction, and where there will be failures it will not be for lack of trying remedy our predicament.

Charley