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by LunaSea 213 days ago
> Unfortunately our skies and land are littered with windmills made out of unrecyclable polymers that are terrible for raptors.

Like our lands and oceans are not littered with drilling platforms and fracking stations already

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non-responsive to the parent comment. Oil is not nuclear.
Incorrect, parent comment mentioned gas.
Ideally we could get rid of everything for nuclear, but that's not today's reality. The truth is natural gas is needed to transition off of coal and has helped reduce emissions.

That being said, I would like to reduce those drilling rigs. However I don't see their existence justification for more damage by putting up windmills.

It's classic whataboutism. Both things can be harmful.

Below is an exercise to help point it out.

> Like our lands and oceans are not littered ... already

Without the "what about" subject, this statement looks bad doesn't it?

That reasoning is no different than the people who see trash on the ground and throw more because it's already trashed, so why not.