Neil is a former educational video creator, now retired but with enormous energy for encouraging energy change.

He'd interviewed farmers and neighbours living in and around the Waubra wind farm who had no ill-feelings about the turbines.

He'd recorded the interviews and uploaded them to the Victorian Wind Alliance website,  a voice for supporters of more wind energy in Victoria.

His interview subjects talked about how hosting their turbines had in some cases boosted their incomes, didn't upset their chooks and had caused no sleeplessness or illness.

Further, a community fund created by the wind farm company, had helped community groups.

So I logged on to check out the videos and arrived first at a site called Stop These Things.

If tone is anything to go by, VicWind wins hands down ahead of STT for civility and transparency. It names the people behind the site, includes their pictures and brief biographies as well as a blog and the videos mentioned above and a phone number for people to contact. There is no such transparency on the other site.

It does not name the creators or writers of the website, merely declaring themselves "a kitchen table of concerned citizens". Nor does it include biographies or a phone number to contact.

Why not?

Lo and behold if that site didn't feature farmers and neighbours talking about how the wind farms had made their lives unbearable in some way or another and how they'd upset their chooks.

Its tone is angry and bitter and sarcastic.

In the meantime the urgency to act to stop humanity's output of greenhouse gases grows ever greater.

The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s scrutable report assessing the risk of human-induced climate change is loud and clear.

The September report told us that it's extremely likely humans have been the dominant cause of warming.

And, consequences of our continued greenhouse gas output include more frequent and longer-lasting heat waves.

Wet regions will receive more rainfall and dry regions will receive less, with some exceptions. Governments at national and state level in Australia are failing us when it comes to leading change on greenhouse gas reduction.

Big corporates, too cumbersome to move with the speed and efficiency now required, are also largely failing us.

So it's up to people to make change. At the local level, wind farms give us that opportunity.

They don't emit greenhouse gas when producing electricity as coal does.

They are an intelligent way for us to take responsibility for cutting our emissions.

Canberra-based developer Windlab Systems is working with the landholders of Coonooer Bridge, west of Wedderburn, to erect five turbines reaching to 150m.

The company says that while the project has much greater acceptance than other wind farms have had, not everyone is enamoured of the idea.

Yet it appears a feasible, respectful model for change at a local level. Arguments about the aesthetics of wind farms are valid, yet to block wind energy without taking substantive non-damaging steps to cut our greenhouse gas emissions makes us culpable, even worse, delinquent in our responsibilities as intelligent human beings.

Let's stop fiddling while Rome burns and get on with building them.