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by mabbo
1023 days ago
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> concerns exist about impact on wildlife My father pointed out an interesting counter to this to me recently: how many birds are killed by wind farms and how many are killed by house cats? Studies show a million or so birds killed in the US by wind each year. Other studies estimate cats kill billions of birds- and most aren't eaten, because the cats are well fed pets. > loss of agricultural space Is that something we're short of? I'd argue that food prices, ignoring recent inflation fluctuations, are the cheapest they've been ever in the history of humanity. Hunger only exists in the world because capitalism dictates that those who are poor must starve. The opposition to renewables is pure NIMBYism. Though I'd still back new nuclear any day (and my province recently announced some!) |
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Yes and no. On the one hand, we destruct rain forests to have agricultural space. Bad of course. On the other hand, we destroy the remaining nature by using pesticides to increase short term production.
Nevertheless, this wouldn't be necessary if the world would switch to plant based diets as much as possible