Awe. How lovely.

@lritter

I’m sorry, your use of alt text is not helping blind and partially sighted people.

We still have insects smashed at the blades, infrasound (from the WTGs) terrorising the neighbourhood, microplastics abrasion from the blades poisoning the environment (particularly the groundwater), drying out of the surrounding due to the area sealed of by the WTG's foundation, etc. ️
/sarc

Fixed your #Alt text for you:

A large wind turbine rising above trees in the evening light with a clear blue sky.

Caption reads: This machine stops wars.
In smaller print: (It's a big fan of peace)

#Ableism

The point here is that the wind turbine death fear is propaganda. There are various sources with a range of data. All of them very high overall. Some cite even higher numbers.

Either way, it’s not renewable energy killing birds.

The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States - PubMed

Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually. Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands. The magnit …

PubMed (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Just a moment...

(www.allaboutbirds.org)

Hundreds of Millions of Birds Are Killed Annually from Building Collisions

A new study finds that certain species are at greater risk—and that skyscrapers aren't the biggest culprits.

Audubon (www.audubon.org)

Nice. That’s great math. Also, I want to apologize for my reply to you. It sounded mean, which wasn’t my intention. That’s what I get for responding while gaming. Anyway, I’m sorry for my snarky tone.

None of the people i've heard using the "wind turbines kill the little birdies!!!" argument have ever given a shit about birds or wildlife in general. It's just pure propaganda

The linked article says "Estimates places the number of U.S. bird deaths at the paws of cats at between 365 millions and 2.4 billion." It doesn't give sources for this. It does contain a link to the page https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds that lists various threats to birds. It has a table with various things that kills birds, and for cats it gives much higher numbers than the graphic. It gives the source for that as "Loss et al 2013a", but has again no list of sources.

If I do a bit of web searching I find this, which apparently is the source: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

And yes, the number is huge. Even larger that in the graphic, even. "We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually."

I have no way to know how good and reliable the scientific methods used by Loss et al were. Some people seem to be suggesting they used very unreliable extrapolation from extreme cases. I found this paper, but it is on a cat-lover site, so can hardly be seen as neutral... https://www.alleycat.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/LossEtAl_Report_GregoryJMatthews_6-10.pdf

One obvious thing is that possibly cats to a large extent kill birds that would have died soon anyway.

In general I don't find it unbelievable that domestic and feral cats kill huge numbers of birds. The order of magnitude mentioned in the graphic might be way off from reality, though. (But still, it would be much larger than the number for wind turbines.)

I guess you’re welcome to disagree with sourced research data. ‍️

@greenpeace

AND…all of those stories about how the turbines kill birds is just oil-industry propaganda.

Source:
https://www.statista.com/chart/15195/wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds/

#Data #Facts #Green #Environment #WindTurbines #Birds

Renewable energy provides a nation with agency, autonomy, sovereignty, and the ability to say what Spain says to Trump. No.

‘No to war’: Sánchez doubles down after Trump threat to cut off trade with Spain

PM says his country will not be complicit in growing conflict in Middle East ‘simply out of fear of reprisals from someone’

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

(www.bloomberg.com)

Spain's Pedro Sánchez hits back at Trump threat to sever trade saying 'no to war'

Spain's prime minister delivers a strong rebuttal to US President Donald Trump's threat to end trade with his country.

(www.bbc.com)

(Spain is an energy exporter now & can punch above its weight class.)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2026/04/07/trump-remarks-pushing-europe-to-security-alternatives-spain-says/89498857007/

#Alt4You A wind turbine standing tall against a clear blue sky. Caption reads this machine stops wars (it’s a big fan of peace).

Love all your posts. This is another great one. Please keep.it up, double down, feel encouraged.

Love the Woody Guthrie callback too.

Hurrah.