My only beef is when they chop down trees to erect wind turbines. There are better spots than in the middle of our forests, thanks.
Those forests are an important part of the water cycle and the carbon cycle and we will not gain optimal climate stability by deforesting.
@Sea1Am Depends on where you live, where I am they're built in large areas of open bog that used to be traditionally cut to provide turf to be burnt for heating, now the surrounding houses are having solar and heat pumps installed, all backed by government subsides to ease the cost of transitioning over to renewables, a 5kwp system with a 5kw inverter is roughly €5k installed and connected to the grid.
Ofc, I don't mean to criticize all "green" projects, but the other day I was confronted with an article patting Germany on the back for building a giant turbine in the middle of a beautiful forest.
Like, come on guys, those trees are much more valuable than we realize, not to mention the mycelial/root networks below the surface.
The rains tend not to fall on deserts, but they do over rainforests, because the trees bring the rain via transpiration.
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