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Brazil’s Big Cats Under Threat from Wind Farms
- zolbrek 3y agohttps://archive.ph/36cmB https://archive.ph/36cmB
- lobocinza 3y agoIt's difficult to quantify but I don't doubt that what is deemed to be green energy can be more harmful to environment (local at least) than burning oil. We should have heavily invested in nuclear energy infra and fission research years ago. Unfortunately clowns control the narratives around climate change and the environment. If the wind farms are being installed in farms they may actually save the lives of some jaguars. Despite the forced eviction I don't doubt that otherwise those jaguars would be eventually killed by the owners of the land where they roam and feast. The issue is that Brazil lacks decently sized national parks with sufficient infrastructure and policing. Though in conservation numbers I believe Brazil fares much better than most countries in NA and EU with the exception of Canada.
- mullingitover 3y agoI can't help but wonder who helped to astroturf this article. As if the wind farms come anywhere near the amount of habitat loss coming from Brazil's rapid deforestation. It smacks of the concern trolling in the US about birds being killed by wind turbines, when that number is a rounding error of the number of birds killed by cats.