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Posted on December 4, 2017August 10, 2018

Wind Turbines and Aesthetic Beauty

Dramatic visual changes are afoot off the Sussex coast. In a stretch of coastline that sits more or less directly offshore from Brighton, work is underway raising more than one hundred metal towers above waves that until now have seen only passing fishing boats, freighters, and the occasional whale. When completed in 2018, the Rampion …

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Christopher J. Preston is at various times a professor of philosophy, a commercial fisherman, a gardener, an author, and a student of powerful emerging technologies. The most inflated title he ever possessed was Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Ethics of the Anthropocene.

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