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Yes, suggesting that we should slow/stop the transition to alternative fuel sources due to bird deaths in turbines is absolutely fossil fuel propaganda. The re
by ethanbond 3y ago
Yes, suggesting that we should slow/stop the transition to alternative fuel sources due to bird deaths in turbines is absolutely fossil fuel propaganda.
The real danger to birds (and humans, and all other wildlife) is not flying into turbines, but systemic failure caused by extremely rapid environmental changes. You know, the kind that fossil fuel consumption is causing.
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- ceejayoz 3y ago> It is well known agriculture (and we really mean animal agriculture) produces more greenhouse gases than the fossil fuel industry. Agriculture is a fossil fuel industry. The fertilizer it depends on comes from fossil fuel, the machines that till the fields run on fossil fuel, etc. https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/82194/err-224.pdf https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/82194/err-224.... "The food system accounts for a large share of fossil fuel consumption in the United States, and energy accounts for a substantial and highly variable share of food costs." It's also not an either/or scenario. Both fossil fuel use and cow farts cause said climate change.
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- ethanbond 3y ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 3y ago> Now, what uses more fossil fuels: 8 billion humans or 100 billion animals? It is shocking most people cannot recognize this simple imbalance. The question doesn't even make much sense; the animals raised for eating are a form of human usage of fossil fuels. Even if they didn't, a single human and a single chicken don't have anything like the same carbon footprint. No animal uses fossil fuels independently of human activity; eagles don't eat coal, whales don't drink oil. (The answer is still "the humans", though; agriculture is about 10% of our emissions. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...)
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