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Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY's analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 9 months ago (4 children)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

wind energy is going to continue increasing exponentially for a while, it would be wise to mitigate the death of more birds. I also support exterminating stray cats and putting harsh fines on folks who keep outside cats as well. Birds need protecting and we are woefully failing as a species to do so.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Non-native lawns are a huge reason for the native bird decline across NA in the last 3 decades.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Non-native cats are multiple orders of magnitudes worse for bird populations. Non-native lawns mainly effect polinators.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Meh with non-native cats over here gone the native cats would do the killing. The reason we spay strays is more to protect wildcats against c competition, they're not interbreeding much but long-term it's a concern.

Obligatory picture and another yes they do look quite like domestic ones. Behaviour is quite different, though, particularly they're impossible to domesticate. Behaviour you'd consider severely fucked-up cat psychology in African wildcats (which are the ones who domesticated themselves by moving into grain storages) are par for the course for European wildcats. They're not asocial, they're not broken, they just hate humans.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I see your data clearly presented and submit my anecdotal. Clearly I win and we should burn more coal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Gotta love that the same guy who keeps complaining about windmills killing birds is the guy who also got famous building a giant glass tower in New York.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Why would anything kill fields for birds though? Let them do their own damn work.