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Per capita, or overall?
by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Per capita, or overall?
- Houshalter 10y agoOverall.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoAs of 2012, the estimate is something like 225 thousand wind turbines around the world. The best estimates I could find for domestic cat populations is between 200-600 MILLION.
- Houshalter 10y agoI have no idea why per capita estimates are relevant at all in this context. Wind turbines are vastly larger than cats and serve an entirely different purpose. The point is birds are not going to go extinct even if we increase the number of turbines ten fold. It wouldn't even make a dent in the bird death rate, which cats are only a small part of.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoHm. Birds multiply by X every year in the spring. Yet each fall we have about the same number of birds as last year. Brutal fact: the fate of almost all birds is to be eaten. If not by cats, then other creatures that live in the cat niche too. Remember domestic cats are a tiny fraction of the world population.
- maxerickson 10y agoWhich world population? Domestic cats surely dominate all other cats in population.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoI didn't realize that to be concerned about something, their extinction had to be on the line. Then again if that is your standard, I can see why you keep talking about birds, instead of bats.
- Houshalter 10y agoIf it's not extinction, what's the issue? We accept that millions of birds die every year. They have to or the population would explode. Everything from cell towers to glass windows kills ridiculous amounts of birds, and no one cares. Why are wind turbines, which don't even make a dent in that, somehow special? I don't see why the numbers would be significantly different on bat death rates than bird death rates.