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CascadianExpat t1_jaknpi7 wrote

Reply to comment by Ray_Pingeau in Greta Thunberg has joined a protest against wind farms. Here’s why. by SelectiveSanity

I understand that. You’re missing the point. If you think climate change is going to lead to massive ecosystem collapse and extinction, worrying about minor disruptions to grazing patterns on “indigenous land” (not actually owned, just ancestrally claimed) is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. There’s literally not one place on the planet where someone can’t make some objection to building power plants. If we stop everywindmill every time someone doesn’t like the location, we are all going to fucking die. It’s the height of idiocy.

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PimpmasterMcGooby t1_jakmw29 wrote

Reply to comment by obscureposter in Greta Thunberg has joined a protest against wind farms. Here’s why. by SelectiveSanity

Would you like it if some big corporation started constructing wind turbines in your garden, before getting the proper permits to do so. Then after it's erected, a court ruling says it's illegal. But then nothing gets done about it in 500 days, and people say it should stay in your garden, because it's a nice wind turbine?

A wind farm in a nation that already produces 98% renewable energy, won't magically solve the climate crisis. Nor will letting corporations trample over citizens in pursuit of energy, save the planet.

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CascadianExpat t1_jakm8q2 wrote

Reply to comment by PlantfoodCuisinart in Greta Thunberg has joined a protest against wind farms. Here’s why. by SelectiveSanity

If the stakes are extinction-level, worrying about disrupting some caribou grazing is insane. If you’re working about caribou grazing, then clearly you’re not really worried about them all going extinct due to habitat loss and ecosystem collapse. If you really do think all the caribou are at risk of extinction, but you insist that any solution not have comparably irrelevant consequences because of some prideful “humility”, then you’re an idiot.

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