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Wind turbines don't kill enough birds to be more than a drop in the dead-bird bucket. It's a talking point used by people who were looking for reasons to be aga
by biotinker 6y ago
Wind turbines don't kill enough birds to be more than a drop in the dead-bird bucket. It's a talking point used by people who were looking for reasons to be against wind turbines, but housecats kill four orders of magnitudes- not 4x, 10,000x- more birds each year.
The percent of human-caused bird deaths due to wind turbines is smaller than the percent of Americans dying in airplane crashes each year, compared to all US deaths each year.
- heavyset_go 6y agoI agree, but I disagree about the claims that were made by the poster whose post I was responding to.
- mschuster91 6y agoThe species of birds that get killed are different. Wind turbines kill bigger birds, cats kill small songbirds. Both are a non-negligible factor for their respective species.
- adgjlsfhk1 6y agoWindmills generate more than 1% of power. Thus if you scale up the wind turbines by 100x (to cover more than all power generated over the world), they still kill over 100x fewer birds than cats.
- ffggvv 6y agoseems disingenuous to compare the raw numbers of deaths when windmills still aren’t very common but you want to make them far more common. not saying i disagree with your point overall but not a fan of that stat
- titzer 6y agoWell judging from your comment it's going to be hard to get your default attitude to change on this. What would change your mind? A popular mechanics article? https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a24749526/turbines-apex-predator-study/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a247495... Turbines are bad for birds. Period.