In the flint hills area of kansas, proposals to build wind turbines to generate electricity have pitted environmentalist against environmentalist. members of the kansas sierra club support the turbines as a way to reduce use of fossil fuel, but local chapters of the nature conservancy say they will befoul the landscape. the sierra club argues that wind turbines:

I believe the answer is: Reduce the negative externalities elsewhere in the economy.
For example, in order to address this, the kansas sierra club could spend more many in creating technological measurement to reduce the erosion that happened to the landscape. By doing this, they would be able to transfer the risk from damaging to the environment into spending a little bit more money.