Earlier this month I participated in a climate interview in which I mentioned peer-reviewed research finding wind turbines kill more than one million birds and bats each year in the United States.
The host of the program did not seem to care much, dismissively asserting that buildings kill more birds than that.
This is a common claim made by climate extremists when defending the massive animal death toll of wind turbines.
It also reveals an utter lack of concern about animal deaths and other real environmental devastation caused by wind turbines.
This begs the question, are climate extremists truly concerned about the environment or is their primary motivation simply to shut down conventional energy?
Wind turbines are explicitly permitted to kill without penalty bald eagles and other iconic, protected American birds in staggering numbers.
While environmental activists cry outrage every time a few birds accidentally die as a result of conventional energy production, they don’t care in the least about the million-plus birds and bats killed every year by wind and solar power.
Meanwhile, bird and bat numbers are in precipitous decline, due in no small part to increasing numbers of wind turbines.
With climate extremists demanding more and more turbines every year, it seems highly unlikely that bird and bat populations will ever recover to anything approaching their prior, normal levels.
Healthy bird and bat populations are crucial to the entire ecosystem. We have a moral obligation to not callously and deliberately kill them by the millions.
Even if birds flying into buildings is a significant cause of bird deaths, that doesn’t mean we should unnecessarily kill millions more by other means.
And it shouldn’t give the wind power industry a free pass to kill as many birds and bats as they please.
Read more at CFACT
The Birds and Bats are being maimed by Wild Turbines and not a word from the Eco-Freaks Birds get oiled up and we get the usial Junk Mail from the Eco-Freaks to oppose Fracking and Drilling the fact that the National Audubon Society has been a big time supporter for Wind Energy all over this Global Warming/Climate Change scam
Doesn’t that flippant response fall under the meme #WhatAboutIsm?
This deplorable situation is further evidence that the supposed enviro-fanatics are not environmentalists at all. Are these the people who truly enjoy the outdoors, camp whenever possible, photograph natural settings and contribute to wildlife conservation efforts? Many surveys have shown that it is their enviro-opponents who are much more atuned to nature and the natural world.
There’s a huge difference between the birds that fly into buildings and the raptors that are chopped up. There is no shortage of the small birds which are not close to endangered and frequently lay multiple eggs one or more times during the summer vs raptors which are much smaller in number and have only one or two chicks each summer.
Also the bats that are chopped up are key to maintaining the mosquito population. And they are not ones that are flying into buildings. But none of this matters to the left.
Back in 2015 the American Bird Conservancy sued the Dept of the Interior and forced them to revoke a 30 year Eagle take Permit they had issued to the Wind Power Companies and that was Under Obama
Millions of birds massacred no problem .
You will get the same reaction when their population eradication schemes are in play .
Oh so what…some were drug addicts and mentally handicapped .
According to Jacques Cousteau , beloved French marine expert and UN
activist he claimed the UN ‘s goal in 1991 was the elimination of 350,000 people PER DAY .
Birds, bats , humans phew just numbers .
Why has the UN been grossly overstating population growth figures by billions when the obvious facts show the reverse ?
Most countries in the world are below the 2.1 replacement number .
Mr. Dress Up’s country is at 1.6 . Japans is falling like a rock
etc etc . We all know why they do it don’t we ?
Just like the big scary …global warming the UN is fear mongering
to meet their agenda . OK Agenda 21 .