VitskapsdamaMar 7

"Ask most people, and the image of wind turbines as bird killers still persists, often amplified by anti-renewable rhetoric. But if you look at the hard data, a different story emerges. It turns out that while wind turbines do kill birds, they are statistically insignificant compared to the bigger killers we have in our cities and in our bedrooms. In fact, when you factor in climate change, wind power might actually help birds."

Data not only shows the relative impact of wind turbines on bird deaths, but also gives us the insight to reduce their impact further.

https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/technology-articles/sustainability/renewable-energy/birds-and-wind-turbines/

#windpower #science #debunk #renewableenergy #sustainability

The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data

The harm caused by wind turbines isn't nearly as bad as you think.

ZME Science
Show threadSeitansbratenMar 7
@vitskapsdama Most birds are killed for humans to eat. They just don't count
Show threadWesDymMar 8
@Seitansbraten I had to look this up, but USGS says "human activity" kills ~196M birds / year (1979). Hunting accounts for ~61% of that. After that, collisions with human things, at 32%. Pollution and poisoning, 2%. 'Hunting' here apparently includes farming for food, including around 81M chickens per year. (The numbers don't add up otherwise, and I'd already looked up the chicken numbers.) I presume other culinary fowl (turkey, etc.) accounts for most of the rest of that 61%.
Show threadSeitansbratenMar 8

@wesdym

https://sentientmedia.org/how-many-chickens-are-killed/

'Every year, 75 billion chickens around the world are slaughtered for meat by the poultry industry, including 9.5 billion chickens in the U.S. alone. This comes out to around 206 million chickens every 24 hours.'

And that's only the chickens.

Is Chicken Culling Really Helping Prevent Bird Flu's Spread?

The avian flu outbreak has resulted in even more dead poultry than usual.

Sentient
Show threadWesDymMar 8

@Seitansbraten This figure only reflects those "slaughtered for meat". The full number of chickens killed as a consequence of this industry is higher, due to male chicks selected out at the hatchery and other factors. The total is closer to 81M.

Or rather, it was according to a USGS report in 1979. It's got to be more than a little higher by now, 45 years later.

Show threadSeitansbraten

@wesdym Billion. And yes. Last week alone 1 Million have been killed to prevent another kind of bird flu in just one city in Germany. Not for food, just waste.

One Million lives just waste. On one day in one city.

So if people would really care for the life of birds they would #goVegan

Of course I pitty every bird killed by wind turbines. And cars. And I hope they check for birds routes before building wind turbines.

But our consume, our way of living costs many lifes. We should avoid

Mar 8 at 5:48amWeb
Show threadSeitansbratenMar 8

@wesdym those we could.

And we can easily avoid animal farms & animal exploitation by being #vegan

This not only includes corpses on our plates (and the waste thoses corpses cost additionally) but living sustainable. This includes technologies like wind turbines because mining coal also costs live & living space for the wildlife. So does palmoil etc

We should avoid all animal exploitation, suffer & death we're able to.

#goVegan