We have read letters to the editor fantasizing what will happen if the White Oak wind farm is developed. It seems appropriate to examine what might happen if we don't develop this wind farm along with other sources of renewable energy.

Suppose some morning we open the Pantagraph and read, "Today's paper is your last one. Today the world is out of fossil fuels. No more oil, coal or natural gas. Without these energy sources, no electricity. Without electricity we can neither print nor deliver the Pantagraph."

Without electricity or fossil fuels we will have no way to prepare or preserve food.

While we may have warmer winters - global warming - they will be uncomfortable without heat.

We can't go south for the winter unless we walk: remember, no cars, trucks, busses, trains, airplanes or boats except the kind you row or sail. Some folks may object to using the wind for sailboats.

Three hundred million people - some from Canada - walking toward Florida will be quite a sight. However, most of them won't get far without food. Those who make it to Florida will come back next summer - no air conditioning.

We could have prevented this disaster if back in 2007 we had the foresight to start developing clean, renewable sources of energy such as wind-generated electricity.

While this scenario is futuristic, every thinking person knows that the world's supply of fossil fuels is limited. We need to get our heads and oil pumps out of the sand and quit pretending that we have unlimited fossil fuel.

Most of the fears expressed by those who oppose White Oak wind farm are unfounded. They have had huge wind farms in California for years, without significant problems.

We should be using the clean renewable energy provided by the wind.

Reginald Henry

Rural Hudson