My somehow-now-conservative mom lives in the midwest and will rant long and hard about how windmills make the soil under them "dirty" because they "leak oil from the blades" and "all the farmers know it's true"
I once considered this lady smart, smh
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I'm a soil scientist. Want some talking points lol.
One of her friends probably listened to a talk show where two people bitched about it for 3 minutes and played some devil's advocate. I swear they use the conservative talk shows to train to become horrible people.
Ask any groundskeeper for a glass building. You find dead birds every day.
I am pretty sure all of those pale in comparison to environmental pollution and destruction of nature reserves.
Like these people even care about wildlife. They would rather pump oil and leak in to the ocean if it meant they get to still drive gas guzzling cars polluting the Earth
679,089 seems oddly specific for an estimate
Are windows other collisions? I think we had 3-6 birds die hitting windows just this last year. Put up some window stickers hoping for a better result, but I have to think windows kill more than all others combined.
Trump's giant skyscrapers covered in windows probably kill way more birds than windmills.
Should we break all Trump's windows to save the birds. Inquiring minds want to know!
Use the buildings to kill all the pigeons and supply Trump Chicken outlets.
So we shouldn't use cat-butter engines to generate electricity?
This doesn't even take into account the other small animals they kill
human-caused bird deaths
cats
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Humans allow cats to breed out of control because they're stupid. It's human-caused.
Humans allow cats to breed out of control because theyβre stupid.
Humans don't "allow cats to breed". Cats breed whether you want them to or not, often well outside the purvey of people.
What humans have done is to obliterate the rest of the ecosystem. No predatory birds or snakes. No legions of field critters. No native plant life.
Bobcats and pumas were natives of the Texas heartland for hundreds of thousands of years before humans arrived and they got on just fine. Much better at killing wildlife than any Maine Coon, too. You didn't need the SPCA snipping their nutsacks to keep them in check. No more than you needed a breeding program for ground squirrels or passenger pigeons to keep their population size up.
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Humans buy cats as pets and let them roam outside where they wreck havoc on the local wildlife.
Humans buy homes and flatten entire ecosystems with concrete. Your in-ground swimming pool and gasolines of de-weeding sprays across the Bermuda Grass lawn do more to kill native species than any house pet.
Now compare migratory birds vs nesting. The error bar on these numbers is massive.
I think itβs worth it. Itβs worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some bird deaths every single year so that we can have cats. Thatβs a prudent deal. It is rational.
Facts are facts, I guess.
In 40 years of me having cats, my cats didn't kill anyone while living full happy spoiled lives.
I just think its crazy to roll into an empty field, drain it, sterilize it, drop down thousands of miles of concrete, clear cut the surrounding area, erect hundreds upon hundreds of giant heavily insulated homes, throw up power lines, build fences, spray pesticides, run high speed traffic 24/7/365, hand kids bb-guns and slingshots and bottle rockets...
and then explain the extinction-level drop in bird life by pointing to house cats.
How many native species did you have to kill to make the tabby the apex predator of your region?
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