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It's annoying that there's interest in these stats mainly as an argument against renewable energy, not from perspective of wildlife preservation. Just those par
by pornel 2y ago
It's annoying that there's interest in these stats mainly as an argument against renewable energy, not from perspective of wildlife preservation. Just those particular birds are precious, not the others killed by other man-made structures, pollution, and habitats destroyed by expansion of agriculture.
I'd like to see not just more precise numbers of birds lost to wind energy, but the environmental and societal costs of not having the wind energy. Fuel extraction and processing has its environmental impact too. Lack of affordable energy (fuel poverty) costs human lives too. How many human lives are harmed to save a bird from a windmill?
- mcv 2y agoYeah, it's kinda weird, the kind of people who are suddenly pretending to be into wildlife preservation. If they were honest about it, they'd also look into bigger bird killers like high rise buildings, powerlines, cars, domestic cats. Also, climate change disrupting ecosystems is unlikely to be good. But it's probably a good idea to build wind farms outside major migratory routes.