If Goya, Say, Had Tackled the Climate Issue, It May Have Resembled ‘The Beasts’

The college-age child of an acquaintance spent the better part of a recent afternoon enlightening her elders about what is said to be the oncoming climate disaster and the measures by which it could be averted. When the subject of wind turbines came up as a means of generating energy, their virtues were extolled enthusiastically by our interlocutor. A guest asked if turbines weren’t an insult to the natural world — an aesthetic eyesore, if you will, on God’s dominion — and the boomers in attendance were summarily tut-tutted and told that such matters would be addressed at some later date. Not to worry, not to worry.