Industrial wind turbines are perfectly designed to slaughter airborne predators like Eagles, Hawks and Kites: 50-60m blades with their outer tips travelling at over 350Kph make short work of any bird or bat brave or foolish enough to find itself in the middle of what have become giant avian killing fields.
At this point in the discussion, the faux environmentalist shrugs and claims that cars and skyscrapers kill more birds. Never mind the fact that healthy apex predators like Eagles aren’t killed by cars or high-rise buildings. Never mind the fact that even after 30 years and massive subsidies wind power’s contribution to energy demand remains risible, removing any justification for the growing carcass count.
Environmentalists ready to slam unreliable wind and solar are few and far between. Michael Shellenberger is one of them.
Whatever your views on climate change (the apparently existential threat formerly known as ‘global warming’), the…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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