But the arrival of turbines along the Gulf shores has spawned a range of concerns, like their impact on birds and coastal habitat and the turbines' effect on military radar.
"I think doing research on outliers, people at an end of a spectrum on something of concern like violent behavior, is certainly a good idea," he said, but he advised tempering expectations.
Unlike the battles that occur everywhere when airports are built or expanded, this one focused not only on local concerns like noise and air quality, but also on the climate-damaging emissions of the airline industry.
Among the protesters' chief grievances was the huge public expenditure on showy stadiums instead of on grownup concerns, like improving public transportation, schools, and hospitals.
While there is sexual scandal (that's familiar), the drama focuses on more challenging concerns, like the meaning of existence, female self-determination, faith and humanism.
In the months immediately following the November election, these long-simmering issues had been on the back burner of American politics as Washington focused on domestic concerns like the budget, an immigration overhaul and gun control.
That's a phrase New York Times columnist Ross Douthat used on Twitter in discussing the resistance of African bishops to what they saw as the synod's focus on Western concerns like divorce and homosexuality, and efforts to adapt church teaching on those issues in ways that the African churches would not accept.
Others focused on employee concerns like how to balance home and work-life commitments.
They will focus on serious concerns like inadequate fire exits and fundamental structural flaws that could cause buildings to collapse.
Motorcycle magazines generally dwell on earthy concerns like the joys of tattoos and the misery of road rash.
