Why Do Environmentalists Hate Birds?

[Saved.One.by.Grace]

Every application of new tech has consequences; some good, some bad. Solar energy was never going to supply 100% of our (USA) energy needs. But politicians like Gov. Jerry Brown seem to be rethinking their environmental concerns:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/emerging-solar-plants-scorch-birds-mid-air-25017031

Even old tech like windmills have consequences:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown...ld-eagles-are-now-protected-from-prosecution/

So why do environmentalists hate birds, even endangered ones?

 

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I almost hit a racoon the other day driving home from work. I don't hate racoons....should I stop driving?

 

[Saved.One.by.Grace]

I almost hit a racoon the other day driving home from work. I don't hate racoons....should I stop driving?

Yes. I would feel safer.

 

[rexlunae]

Every application of new tech has consequences; some good, some bad. Solar energy was never going to supply 100% of our (USA) energy needs. But politicians like Gov. Jerry Brown seem to be rethinking their environmental concerns:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/emerging-solar-plants-scorch-birds-mid-air-25017031

Even old tech like windmills have consequences:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown...ld-eagles-are-now-protected-from-prosecution/

So why do environmentalists hate birds, even endangered ones?

And while we're at it, why do anti-environmentalists hate clean air and water so much?

 

[Angel4Truth]

I almost hit a racoon the other day driving home from work. I don't hate racoons....should I stop driving?

yes, according to the weird standards of the epa. The threats to wildlife are no greater going after other resources than there are using windmills that kill birds.

Will the next suggestion be to stop using power altogether?

 

[resurrected]

they hate birds because they're afraid they will reverse-evolve and become dinosaurs again and eat everybody

 

[steko]

OP: Why Do Environmentalists Hate Birds?

They poop on their clipboards.

 

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yes, according to the weird standards of the epa. The threats to wildlife are no greater going after other resources than there are using windmills that kill birds.

Will the next suggestion be to stop using power altogether?

Though the threat to the environment on the whole may be greater. It seems more than eagles rely upon our ecosystem for survival. Mayhap dead birds are a lesser of two evils.

 

[Saved.One.by.Grace]

Though the threat to the environment on the whole may be greater. It seems more than eagles rely upon our ecosystem for survival. Mayhap dead birds are a lesser of two evils.

The problem is that wind and solar power are marginal sources for power. If I lived more in the country, wind and/or solar might make sense for my house, but it wouldn't do much for the neighborhood.

 

[Angel4Truth]

A friend of mine brought this to my attention:

California’s new solar power plant is actually a death ray that’s incinerating birds mid-flight

What spans 1,600 hectares, cost $2.2 billion to build, and potentially fries hundreds of thousands of birds per year? The new BrightSource solar power plant in California’s Mojave Dessert. The plant, which uses some 350,000 garage-door-sized mirrors to focus sunlight on three boiler towers, also acts as a death ray, instantly igniting and killing any wildlife that happen to fly through the intense beam of light. Wildlife officials are concerned that this concentrated solar power plant, and others like it, could turn into “mega-trap” that decimates the ecosystem — first attracting insects, and then attracting birds that eat insects. BrightSource, in the mean time, is forging ahead with an even larger solar power plant that officials say could kill four times as many birds. Won’t somebody stop these not-so-green nature-killing maniacs?

read more at link: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...death-ray-thats-incinerating-birds-mid-flight

 

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Do you two hold an opinion on say, fracking...or is that not green enough for you?

 

[Angel4Truth]

Do you two hold an opinion on say, fracking...or is that not green enough for you?

Doesn't bother me unless its in urban areas or near homes and unfortunately lots of that is happening and we havent even begun to see the problems that will come of it.

 

[resurrected]

Do you two hold an opinion on say, fracking...or is that not green enough for you?

fracking kills birds that nest underground! :sibbie:

 

[Eeset]

Do you know that 21 million chickens are killed daily in this country!

 

[resurrected]

it's easier to eat them when they're dead :chew:

 

[Angel4Truth]

Do you know that 21 million chickens are killed daily in this country!

:TomO:

 

[steko]

Do you know that 21 million chickens are killed daily in this country!

it's easier to eat them when they're dead :chew:

Eewh, eatin' dead chickens.

 

[resurrected]

go ahead and eat the live ones if you want :idunno:

 

[steko]

go ahead and eat the live ones if you want :idunno:

Now, that sticks in my craw!



But.....I guess they could claw their way out. :noid:

 

[resurrected]

it'd be like a big feathery hairball