How wonderfully ironic that two pieces on wind power generation and the need for the U.S. to adopt green power alternatives appeared cheek-by-jowl in the Sun Journal (March 16).

To no one’s surprise, the op-ed column by Natural Resources Council of Maine spokesperson Paul Liebow laid blame for lack of alternative energy sources right at the feet of the Republican Party and Western capitalism in general.

The Sun Journal’s editorial pointed out that the most strenuous resistance to green energy comes, in fact, from those who scream loudest for its need.

When it comes to implementation rather than theoretical dreaming, there is absolutely no form of alternative energy acceptable to the environmental movement. Every renewable resource – wind, hydro, tidal, etc. (never mind every Green’s all-time favorite bogeyman, nuclear) – is deemed unacceptable for any number of aesthetic reasons.

That won’t change.

The environmental movement has repeatedly shown by its actions that it has no interest in actually doing anything to address the crisis it has so carefully whipped up. As Liebow ably demonstrated in his column, the green environmental movement exists only to rail against capitalism and the prosperity of the free-market democracies.

Andrew Hall, Lewiston