Posted on 07/30/2023 9:37:41 PM PDT by threefinger
Nearly 16 million carbon-catching trees have been cut down in Scotland since 2000 – in order to erect carbon-saving wind turbines – the Scottish National Party (SNP) admitted last week.
An estimated 15.7 million trees – or about 1,700 per day – have been cut down on public land managed by Forestry and Land Scotland, Scottish Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon revealed in a letter to Scottish Tory MSP (Member of Scottish Parliament) Liam Kerr, who called the news “astonishing.”
Sacrificing trees to build wind farms comes at a price to both wildlife and businesses, MSP Kerr warns, according to an article by The Telegraph:
“I’ve been contacted many times by rural communities all over the country questioning the location of these developments, sharing legitimate concerns not just about the visual impact but also damage to wildlife and business. Now we learn there’s significant damage when it comes to trees.”“He said [Scotland’s] ministers ‘must be alive’ to the ‘significant costs’ that could be incurred with the siting of wind farms.”
Ironically, “The revelation came despite the nationalist party boasting about its green credentials, and being involved in a coalition with the Scottish Greens,” Scottish Daily Express notes. “It forms part of the SNP administration's plans to make Scotland net zero over the next decade,” The Express explains.
In an interview with GB News, MSP Kerr said he has now sent a letter to the cabinet secretary asking for data on how much carbon is saved by wind farms, in comparison to the amount sequestered by trees:
“If they’re going to say it is better to have wind farms than it is to have forestry, then they must surely have that data. Because, if they don’t, I think that would be very concerning, indeed.”
“Trees Are Climate Change, Carbon Storage Heroes,” the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) declares in an article describing how trees remove carbon from the air and store it, because they need it in order to grow.
“Joanie got it wrong: they did ‘pave paradise’ and they did take down the trees – but, they didn’t ‘put ‘em in a tree museum,” a GB News host quipped, quoting the song ”Big Yellow Taxi,” by Joni Mitchell.
“And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
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Nothing better than a government project designed by wackos.
>One website says that the 16 million trees was over a 20 year period and they’ve planted about 270 million trees at the same time.<
That same Australian website is also pushing people to get the fifth jab. Excuse me wanting a healthy heaping of salt to go with it.
Even if this left wing, utopian, Cheetos eating, basement dwelling den of a blogspot is correct, that’s still 14 million fewer trees than there could be.
Time to get the Birkenstock-with-thermal socks crowd to go do some tree sitting in Scotland.
EC
Why is it that liberals and logic are so disconnected? I just have a hard time accepting the depths of their stupidity. But, then I read articles like this one.
Don’t need wood for African housing.
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Kudos for the very apt observation.
The climate change "event" and associative scams were spread in part through YouTube. The Covid "event" was dotted with YouTube, and now the Ukraine-Russia "event" is even more splattered with YouTube "reporting." Check the "UFO" stuff.... On both sides, since both sides are correct, eh?
One thing is certain, Throughout and on every conceivable side, YouTube collects, and collects and collects.
Everyday there is more evidence the world has gone mad.
Anyone considering the effect of proliferating wind farms on air currents and thus the weather?
Remember the Sahara Forest?
and under each wind turbine is a house sized concrete and steel footing , oh and don’t forget wind turbine leak oil
Good thing CO2 levels are up, so the trees will grow back faster.
Scotland has abundance of trees to waste.
Yep just like Easter island had.
Down the road they'll REGRET having done this.
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