Bravo for nimbyism. What else will keep us from turbines and pylons? | Simon Jenkins

Too much faith – and subsidy – is ploughed into wind power when there are alternatives to butchering Britain

We know all about life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness, but what of beauty? This week hundreds of marchers have converged on Cardiff from the west Midlands and mid-Wales in a desperate bid to halt what, on any showing, is an aesthetic travesty. By what right?

The protested plan, which has seen the Welsh marches in uproar for six months, is to erect 800 more wind turbines ...