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The California Condor is the key to ending the 2073 pandemic. Their extinction due to wind farms in 2065 is about to lead to extinction of the human race. The

by KMag 4y ago

The California Condor is the key to ending the 2073 pandemic. Their extinction due to wind farms in 2065 is about to lead to extinction of the human race. They discover a time travel mechanism that only works for energy, not matter. They can't travel back in time and just grab some condors or open a time portal underneath an unsuspecting condor, since the portals don't work with matter. They open a time portal for radio waves and use a 5G modem to sabotage wind farms in 2022. It turns out that all of the hysteria against 5G was an attempt by a psychopathic dictator in the future to end humanity by taking down all of the 5G towers to prevent the sabotage of the wind farms.

bigDinosaur 4y ago
Although you're joking, it's important to note that the angle of birds being killed by wind farms is a tactic used by people who want to see wind projects fail or not happen but want to dress this up in environmentalist sounding language. It's not that birds are never killed by wind turbines, it's that this is scrutiny only applied to wind turbines by the fake-environmentalists when they'll happily accept the environmental destruction of other methods of power generation. Close to heart because I know of a major wind project cancelled in my area due to the government commissioning an 'environmental review' which concluded the whole project had to be canned because it'd endanger a parrot. Meanwhile, the logging continued unabated...
- no-s 4y ago
  > It's not that birds are never killed by wind turbines, it's that this is scrutiny only applied to wind turbines by the fake-environmentalists when they'll happily accept the environmental destruction of other methods of power generation. Meanwhile the raptors are still shredded...
  - bigDinosaur 4y ago
    I fully stand by the statement that it's basically only fake environmentalists who care. Yes, some real environmentalists do too, but seriously: the wholesale destruction of the entire biosphere due to the rampant use of fossil fuels, the destruction of entire ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest, and some people only focus on how we shouldn't build wind farms because of the birds. Colour me cynical about most people who bring up wind farms and birds. Again, I know of projects where that entire angle was just a political one used to cancel wind projects in favour of staying reliant on coal. I liked that parrot too; it's probably doomed anyway due to the fact that destruction of native forests is rampant. How will the raptors do in global warming?
    - no-s 4y ago
      > How will the raptors do in global warming? Raptors will probably go extinct first because nutty activists imagine criticism of misguided environmental priorities may be safely ignored because of who brought it up...thus committing a tragic error. My personal feeling is giant HAWT technology should be banned due to the potential for environmental damage.
  - pjc50 4y ago
    Numbers, people. How many are actually killed by wind turbines, versus loss of habitat, deliberate poisoning, hunters, etc? The big threats to smaller birds are glass buildings and domestic cats, but they don't get as much discourse.

by KMag 4y ago

bigDinosaur 4y ago

Although you're joking, it's important to note that the angle of birds being killed by wind farms is a tactic used by people who want to see wind projects fail or not happen but want to dress this up in environmentalist sounding language. It's not that birds are never killed by wind turbines, it's that this is scrutiny only applied to wind turbines by the fake-environmentalists when they'll happily accept the environmental destruction of other methods of power generation. Close to heart because I know of a major wind project cancelled in my area due to the government commissioning an 'environmental review' which concluded the whole project had to be canned because it'd endanger a parrot. Meanwhile, the logging continued unabated...

no-s 4y ago
> It's not that birds are never killed by wind turbines, it's that this is scrutiny only applied to wind turbines by the fake-environmentalists when they'll happily accept the environmental destruction of other methods of power generation. Meanwhile the raptors are still shredded...
- bigDinosaur 4y ago
  I fully stand by the statement that it's basically only fake environmentalists who care. Yes, some real environmentalists do too, but seriously: the wholesale destruction of the entire biosphere due to the rampant use of fossil fuels, the destruction of entire ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest, and some people only focus on how we shouldn't build wind farms because of the birds. Colour me cynical about most people who bring up wind farms and birds. Again, I know of projects where that entire angle was just a political one used to cancel wind projects in favour of staying reliant on coal. I liked that parrot too; it's probably doomed anyway due to the fact that destruction of native forests is rampant. How will the raptors do in global warming?
  - no-s 4y ago
    > How will the raptors do in global warming? Raptors will probably go extinct first because nutty activists imagine criticism of misguided environmental priorities may be safely ignored because of who brought it up...thus committing a tragic error. My personal feeling is giant HAWT technology should be banned due to the potential for environmental damage.
- pjc50 4y ago
  Numbers, people. How many are actually killed by wind turbines, versus loss of habitat, deliberate poisoning, hunters, etc? The big threats to smaller birds are glass buildings and domestic cats, but they don't get as much discourse.