Poor birds! Just in Northern America some 680,000 birds a year die from collision with a wind turbine! So we should get rid of wind turbines! Which you should not mean unless you're a hypocrite. Cars kill 200 million birds a year in Northern America.
'Yeah, but wind turbines kill 680,000 birds a year so renewable energy is bad!' If you're one of those stupid people who believe the propaganda from 'the elite' and claim renewable energy is bad, you wil not like this fact: Coal, gas, and oil power plants kill 34 times more birds than wind turbines do.
A few years ago Norwegian scientists figured out a way to half the number of fatal bird collisions with wind turbines.
Next to this simple solution there are also much more complicated (and expensive) solutions to help save birds lives. Like the SKARV bird collision avoidance system.
What do you think the fossil fuels industry is doing to prevent their money making machines from killing millions of animals a year?
Publicly they worry about the problem and if they have 'christian' in their social media profile they may even offer some thoughts and prayers to 'those poor birds'.
And that's it.
Some half a million birds die each year in oil pits in the USA alone. But 'saving birds is not economically viable', say the politicians who are bought by the oil industry.
However, the greatest bird killer is...the cat. With a whopping 2,4 billion killed birds a year in Northern America alone, Felis Catus is hands down the winner of the competition 'greatest bird killer'. Not surprisingly 'wild' cats kill some three times as much birds as house cats do.
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Maybe we should stop genetically engineering and domesticating wild animals. Or for example - as was the case in parts of Italy until the 1970s - simply put 'Cat' back on the menu in restaurants. 'Yeah, but they look so cute!' Unlike chickens, pigs or cows.
Do you think we should do anything possible to prevent animals from being tortured and killed? Or don't you want to miss your steak and chicken nuggets?
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