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Re:The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On by creatonez on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:10PM (#36926250)
Just to examine the common claim about wind turbines killing birds -- the number of birds killed by wind turbines is vanishingly small compared to other threats.

https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds

234,012 - Collisions: Land-based wind turbines

6,600,000 - Collisions: Communication towers

72,000,000 - Pesticides & other poisons

214,500,000 - Collision: Vehicles

599,000,000 - Collision: Glass skyscrapers

2,400,000,000 - Predation by cats

[Unknown] - Habitat loss and climate change

These are just some estimates of some admittedly very difficult to capture data, but the orders of magnitude differences are revealing nonetheless.

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