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To: heartwood
Did you know that the best estimates in 2021 were that wind turbines kill 700,000 birds of all species every single year?

Your minimization of the problem is utterly ridiculous.

See...

How Many Birds Are Killed by Wind Turbines?
January 26, 2021
By Joel Merriman, American Bird Conservancy

17 posted on 05/19/2023 9:07:49 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/science/bird-populations-america-canada.html

Here is an article estimating that the wild bird population in the US has declined from 10 billion to 7 billion from 1970 to present. 3 billion decline divided by 50 years is a loss of 60 million per year. Not good at all, but 800,000 per year from wind turbines is a small factor. Grassland birds hardest hit, but their numbers were going down before turbines were common.

I don’t like turbines, their unnatural alien rotation on hilltops. Forests cut down for the balsa, giant blades buried acre by acre when they break, fiberglass in soil.

The greens act like there is no environmental cost to what they call green. The government mandates renewable energy and fines companies for the inevitable consequences of the industry.

Might as well mandate a count on every salamander scraped up in a strip mine, but they don’t. Or every bird killed logging an overseas balsa forest, but they don’t.


25 posted on 05/19/2023 10:05:20 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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