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Environmentalist who helped found the ‘green movement’ is battling plans for a WIND FARM near HIS home

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One of the world’s top environmentalists and a founding father of the ”green” movement is fighting plans to build a wind turbine in his village.

Professor James Lovelock, 93, is famous for inventing ‘Gaia Theory’ and predicting global warming would wipe out four fifths of the world’s population by 2100.

But in recent years the scientist has outraged many followers after becoming an advocate of nuclear power and a staunch opponent of wind energy.

He is now battling plans for a 275ft wind turbine on farmland near his home in Broadwoodwidger, Devon.

The proposed tower would be installed in woodland close to his house and has attracted fierce opposition from locals.

He has now thrown his scientific reputation behind their campaign in a letter to his local planning authority, Torridge District Council.

Prof Lovelock has described wind turbines as “monuments of a failed civilisation”.

He wrote: “I am an environmentalist and founder member of the Greens but I bow my head in shame at the thought that our original good intentions should have been so misunderstood.

“We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than renewable, nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside our priceless ecological heritage because of their failure to understand that the needs of the Earth are not separable from human needs.”

The veteran environmentalist added: “We need to take care that the spinning windmills do not become like the statues on Easter Island – monuments of a failed civilisation.”

Professor Lovelock’s Gaia theory energised the green movement after its formulation in the 1960s and made him a global icon in the fight against climate change.

He theorised that the Earth is a single self-regulating organism – and therefore will adapt itself to see off threats to its eco system.

He predicted the planet would survive but warned humans would not be so lucky and would have to migrate to the Arctic to stand any chance of surviving.

But in recent years Professor Lovelock has dismayed his followers by questioning renewable energy and advocating nuclear power as how to cut carbon emissions.

The plans are for a 275ft wind turbine similar to these on farmland near Lovelock's home in Broadwoodwidger, Devon
The plans are for a 275ft wind turbine similar to these on farmland near Lovelock’s home in Broadwoodwidger, Devon

In 2009 he launched a blistering attack on Ed Miliband’s claim that opposing wind farms should become as socially unacceptable as failing to wear a seatbelt.

He said: “The right to have public hearings over energy sources is threatened by legislation soon due.

”Although well-intentioned it is an erosion of our freedom and draws near to what I see as fascism.”

The North Devon branch of the Green Party said it would continue to promote wind energy despite the disapproval of its most famous member.

Last week two wind turbines in Cornwall and Devon toppled over in high winds last week – sparking fears the towers could have been sabotaged.

Spokesman Ricky Knight said: “Professor Lovelock remains one of the most respected ecologists of our time.

“It would be preposterous for grass-roots activists to query his assertions, when they are clearly motivated by his concern for the survival of the planet. However, it is defensible to query his focus.”

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    9 years ago

    I had to smile at your comment about the falling wind turbines and fears that they ‘could have been sabotaged’. Wind turbines fall rather more often than is admitted, (two fell down recently not far from where I live) and that is one of the reasons for not having them. The damage they do to birds and bats, the way they are paid for i.e. how the money comes from the poorest and goes to the richest, including overseas multinationals and their inefficiency are a few others. We should listen to James Lovelock – and Stewart Brand, and the John Muir Trust, and Birdlife International and – well, the list goes on and on. the reason we have turbines is simple: a bad policy allows for a massive subsidy bonanza. Nobody installing them cares if they work or what damage they do, they just want to grab the subsidy.

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