\nSolar energy is much cleaner, more efficient, more abundant, and certainly\nless intrusive. It has few if any down-sides. Solar energy will do more for\nour planet and certainly have a more profound impact on lessening the\nemission of gases directly affecting global warming. People who have money\nand power seldom concede anything without a fight. This is primarily where\nthe battle will rage. Therefore, those involved in this controversy, must as\nAbraham Lincoln said, appeal to “the angels of our better their nature”. We\nonly have one planet upon which we know life is sustainable. To pollute this\none place is lunacy in the pursuit of money, sheer greed.\n\nWe have, as a nation, gone through one of the worst calamities facing human\nkind motivated by unbridled greed. Not only was its effects felt in the\nUnited States, its tentacles spread around the world disrupting world\nmarkets.\n
\nThe bane of America is that any and everything is for sale. However, we\nare stewards, care takers, house managers of that which we did not create.\nIn this regard , we are failing miserably. Being a good steward of the\nearth requires that we seek opportunities to do protect, conserve, and\npreserve what has been given to us as a “sacred trust.” The Native\nAmericans took only that from the earth which was necessary for life. Mother\nEarth was sacred, and they refused to abuse it by raping the land in an\neffort to exploit her for her resources. The earth belongs to all mankind.\n
\nMoving forward, we as a nation need to revisit our system of\nvalues. Otherwise, our failure to do so will ensure that life on the only\nplanet we know upon which life is sustainable may not be a blessing we can\npass on to future generations. Whether you believe in the Bible or not, we\nfancy ourselves as a Christian nation. Regarding this, we, like a good\nfrog loudly praise our own pond. In the Bible of this Christian nation, the\ncreation story says, we are to “replenish the earth.” We must put something\nback. Until George Washington Carver showed us the importance of crop\nrotation, the planting of particular types of crops that replenished what\nwas taken from the earth, by repetitive usage, the land suffered. Cotton\nbecame king; the abuse of people of color through slavery was the order of\nthe day, and America was baknrupt morally.\n
\nGrowing out of that innate since of entitlement and the wherewithal to do\nas one desired, the notion to minimize and marginalize anything and anyone\nunable or too weak to fend for it or themselves has accelerated America’s\njourney down this destructive path in which we are considering the\nconstruction of biomas plants and other industrial sites that pollute our\nplanet.\n
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\nAmerica is without doubt a great nation. Yet, it is a nation that has\nsquandered its influence and prostituted its integrity in pursuit of the\nalmighty dollar. To recover ourselves from this abyss of immoral conduct,\nwe must acknowledge the fact that we have utterly failed in our stewardship\nresponsiblity, that some things ought not be for sale, and that the earth is\nworth saving.\n
\nIn closing, a psycholgist said that “children are the mirrors of our\nsocety. Only within the last hundred years have we seen fit to pass laws\nthat considered them as important individuals. Prior to this infanticide\nwhihc is a terrible word, was not a crime. But, when we consider building\nBiomass plants within a one mile proximity to communities and schools,\nassisted living facilities that house the most vulnerable in our nation,\nsomething has gone awry. Perhaps, this is why we are fortunate to have a\nPresident who has seen the need to begin a process in which every American\nhas access to healthcare. Whether you agree with him or not, and I venture\nthat most of the gainsayers have not taken the opportunity to read the\nhealth care law in its entirety. Fortunately, I have.\n
\nGiven the implications relative to the healthcare issues which accompany\nthe construction and operation of these plants, we will eventually need to\nmove toward a one payer healthcare system. That is not an argument or an\noption that most Americans are ready to have. Therefore, it is a\nmuch sagacious and saner alternative to emphaticlly insist on the\nconstruction of “solar energy plants within our communities.” China has\nalready begun to double its effeorts in this area because they know that\nthis is going to be the wave of the future. They have close to 30% of the\nmarket in this area, as we speak, and anticipate creating a market share\nbetween 60 to 70% while we refuse to use the technology avavilable to us in\npushing the envelope in this area. And, we are merely taking baby steps in\nthis area.\n
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\nTo give tax incentives to companies creating jobs in this area on American\nsoil is a win-win situation. To make it less cost effective for companies\ntransporting jobs overseas and engaged in the out-sourcing of jobs is a\nmoral imperative. American companies that engage in these tactics ought to\nbe made to feel the brunt of their unwise decisions. Likewise companies,\ngovernments, local and otherwise ought to be confronted when they seek to\nintroduce biomass plants into our communities under the guise of an\nadvantage which they already know will be detrimental to its populace. Just\nthink, this biomas plant will only provide 25 jobs and create 40 megawatts\nof energy. Is this really a good trade off for the devastation to be\nrealized in its aftermath? I think not!\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh Touchton sent me this today. -jsq John, This letter is from Pastor Michael Bryant, Webb-Miller Community Church, Hahira. He would like to publish on the LAKE blog. Dr. Manning’s response to Brad Lofton is also for publication. Thank you, Leigh Given the complexity of the issue facing us as a community with regard to […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,202,120,14,16,602,41,19,11,21,22,32,1908,23,73,289,24,178],"tags":[5349,8738,1747,2153,398,2330,5347,5277,8704,5278,188,5348,8701,3391,8791,8718,847,7,5279,5280,8713,8714,5281,5282,180,8749,5283,4123],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-agriculture","category-biomass","category-economy","category-environment","category-hahira","category-health-care","category-history","category-lake","category-planning","category-politics","category-pollution","category-religion","category-renewable-energy","category-safety","category-science","category-solar","category-vlcia","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-biomass","tag-brad-lofton","tag-children","tag-china","tag-cotton","tag-crop-rotation","tag-earth","tag-economy","tag-elderly","tag-executive-director","tag-george-washington-carver","tag-georgia","tag-greed","tag-hahira","tag-health-care","tag-jobs","tag-lowndes-county","tag-michael-bryant","tag-overseas","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar","tag-tax-incentives","tag-the-earth-belongs-to-all-mankind","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia","tag-webb-miller-community-church","tag-wiregrass-power-llc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-FX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>\nGiven the complexity of the issue facing us as a community with regard to\nthe Biomass Project, it is incumbent upon all parties involved to recognize\nthat while the populations ill-affected will primarily be our children and\nelderly, the most vulnerable among us, the real issue is the fact that only\n25 job are going to be produced. Likewise, if the facts bear out as\nproclaimed by both or either of the parties involved, and I believe if an\nerror is made, it should be on the side of safety, the benefits to be\nrealized are not nearly as great as the alternative approach provided by a\nsolar energy plant.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n