Hmm, somebody on the internet has hard time recognizing the many benefits that abundance, cheap and reliable energy bring to developing countries. Oh, well, it's a diverse group here.
It's just not what the discussion was about. It was about what are the pros and cons of wind power relative to other electricity generation sources. Your post was unrelated.
My view - as I've stated before - is that fossil fuels have made possible the rapid rise in world food production , technology and as a result, rising world population. Certainly it has allowed a small portion of the population to accumulate a large amount of material wealth. Whether or not any or all of those are good things is a matter of perspective.
As far as average life span - it is primarily due to improvement in public health measures and global immunization efforts. This happened
despite the well known ill health effects of burning fossil fuels. Correlation does not mean causation.
So - you'll get no disagreement from me that the excess energy that fossil fuels have provided has meant more technology, more food production and more people -as well as more material wealth for some. But of course the question is how long will those "benefits" last and what happens when the party's over?
The serious question is: Is there a way to replace at least some of the electricity production currently done by burning fossil fuels with cleaner sources of energy that are more sustainable and less harmful to health?
My view is we will never replace it all. But should we try to replace some of it while we still can?
More serious questions:
Should we be saving as much coal as possible so that we don't run out of steel?
Should we be saving as much easily extractable oil as possible so that we can continue to have it to manufacture other things that have no replacement like polymers, plastics, pharmaceuticals, etc?
So you see, anyone really interested in more sustainable abundance would not be trying to muddy the waters with illogical correlations.
But for those only concerned with short term abundance - by all means, Party On!