Wind farms and other sources of renewable energy tend to have a positive reputation as an alternative to fossil fuels. However, because wind turbines and farms must be located in relatively rural and often low-income areas, there are disparities in terms of who benefits and who has to deal with the noise, lights, so-called "visual pollution", and impacts on local wildlife from these installations. Wind turbine blades and other components do not last forever, raising additional questions of what happens to the discarded parts when they are no longer usable. In many cases, these materials are not properly recycled and are instead abandoned in the local communities, which lack the funds and other resources to adequately deal with them.
Harvest the Wind by 
Wind Energy Essentials: Societal, Economic, and Environmental Impacts by Can proximity to wind farms and wind turbines make you sick? "Wind turbine syndrome" is the term used to describe a diverse range of unpleasant symptoms allegedly caused by wind farms, despite a lack of scientific evidence for its existence. It is nevertheless sometimes invoked as a reasoning against wind farm construction.
Wind turbine syndrome : a communicated disease by 
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