"In the rolling hills of southeast Queensland, Australia, farmer and businessman Brent Finlay stands beneath turbines so tall they rival skyscrapers. "There's a lift inside that takes about 12 minutes to go from the bottom to the top," he said, pointing skyward. Forty-five of the giant turbines that now dot his property are part of the massive MacIntyre Wind Farm which will soon generate enough electricity to power 700,000 homes."
"It's a world away from the climate disaster Finlay endured five years ago when a devastating year-long drought turned his fertile land to powder, birds fell dead from the trees and thousands of native kangaroos perished from extreme temperature fluctuations. "Our ecosystem didn't just decline, it collapsed," he recalled. Despite experiencing firsthand the devastation climate change causes, Finlay's choice to host the wind turbines is not an environmental statement."
Brent Finlay, a southeast Queensland wool and beef farmer, hosts 45 turbines from the MacIntyre Wind Farm that will generate electricity for 700,000 homes. Five years earlier a year-long drought collapsed the local ecosystem, killing birds and thousands of kangaroos and turning fertile land to powder. Finlay uses regenerative farming to restore his family farm and rents land to renewable developers for additional revenue while generating power for nearby communities. Falling renewable technology costs promise broad savings from lower household power prices and fewer costly climate disasters. Faster transitions to clean energy are forecast to be less expensive overall.
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