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"kill millions of birds." They do, but ... maybe have some perspective: "Merriman concludes that 1.17 million birds are killed by wind turbines in the US each
by hutzlibu 3y ago
"kill millions of birds."
They do, but ... maybe have some perspective:
"Merriman concludes that 1.17 million birds are killed by wind turbines in the US each year.
This is a lot of birds, but it is only 0.016% of the estimated 7.2 billion birds that live in the US. It is also significantly less than the 5–6.8 million killed each year by communication towers, the 60–80 million killed by automobiles, the 67–90 million killed by pesticides, or the 365 million to one billion killed by cats each year in the US, according to a study published in Nature."
https://www.energymonitor.ai/renewables/weekly-data-how-many-birds-are-really-killed-by-wind-turbines/?cf-view https://www.energymonitor.ai/renewables/weekly-data-how-many...
So if you want to protect birds, you can do something about cats.
- notanothereric 3y agoAnd here I thought Perdue was the biggest threat to birds in the US …