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Re:Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting i... by tomatotomato37 on Saturday May 18, 2019 @08:42AM (#19947085)
Also don't forget about wind turbines. Those result in some magnitude of thousands of bird kills (why is this such a contested figure‽) but are still necessary if we don't want to start rationing out electricity.

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Re:Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting i... by jyounker on Saturday May 18, 2019 @09:12AM (#19947213)
The figure is disputed because it depends upon the kind of wind turbines. Old wind turbines were much smaller, they had more blades, and they turned much faster. My understanding is that this led to many more bird deaths.
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Re:Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting i... by mikeash on Saturday May 18, 2019 @09:11AM (#19947205)
It’s a contested figure because groups against renewable energy exaggerate the figures to try to push a hypocrisy angle on environmentalists.
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