To the Editor:
“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot/ With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot/ Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone./ They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
Those are lyrics from Joni Mitchell’s terrific song, “Big Yellow Taxi.” Joni, please write a new verse about paving New Jersey’s ocean horizon with gargantuan wind turbines and paving the ocean floor with tons of concrete to support the turbines.
August 29, 2024
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