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Not in anybody's backyard
"Not in my backyard" was invented to discredit opposition by stigmatizing it as selfish. ...After 10 years (and counting) of the Cape Wind debate, we should now have a more sophisticated perspective on this negative acronym, which has played such a key role. We should be more willing to see the opposition as more than just small-minded selfishness.
July 13, 2010
by Brent Harold
in Cape Cod Times
The Wind Energy Siting Reform Act, up for a vote this week in the Massachusetts House, seems to be taking dead aim on the NIMBY factor.
"Not in my backyard" was invented to discredit opposition by stigmatizing it as selfish. You want and need that halfway house, that nuclear-waste-disposal site, that 400-foot wind turbine, but not in your own backyard. You want it but prefer someone else to put up with the undesirable side effects.
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