"recent article by Vice author Lex Berko notes that dead birds are being found with "singed wings" around several California solar energy facilities.And as for corn in your gas tank,
It happens that many of California's solar plants are, the article claims, in the path of "the four major north-to-south trajectories for migratory birds" called "the Pacific Flyway."
Birds are dying in one of two ways. In some cases, they imagine the shining solar panels to be bodies of water and dive straight into them. There they die when they smash into the panels from the sky.
Others "feel the wrath of the harnessed sunlight." The ultra polished solar mirrors bounce sunrays strong enough to burn the feathers off birds that quickly crash to the ground, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Many of the fowl dying as a result of their unfortunate flight paths over solar facilities are birds protected by the federal government under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act."
"ROSCOE, S.D. (AP) — Robert Malsam nearly went broke in the 1980s when corn was cheap. So now that prices are high and he can finally make a profit, he's not about to apologize for ripping up prairieland to plant corn.You'd think the elite greenies would think this stuff through. But like banning incandescent light bulbs in favor of mercury-laden flourescents, it's the initial narrative that counts, not the consequences.
Across the Dakotas and Nebraska, more than 1 million acres of the Great Plains are giving way to corn fields as farmers transform the wild expanse that once served as the backdrop for American pioneers."
Addendum:
There is now a term for this: Pathological Altruism, which is the term Barbara Oakley, Oakland University, has used for misguided ventures.
"She defines pathological altruism “as behavior in which attempts to promote the welfare of another, or others, results instead in harm that an external observer would conclude was reasonably foreseeable.” In her study Oakley explores the psychological and evolutionary underpinnings of empathy and altruism and how they can go wrong. It turns out that pathological altruism is a pervasive problem affecting public policy."
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"Across the Dakotas and Nebraska, more than 1 million acres of the Great Plains are giving way to corn fields[.]"
It's like the green energy people want to destroy our ability to grow food for ourselves.
@Russell: you think? Since when has any leftist or atheist NOT been engaged in the fundamental practice of cutting off the branch on which they sit? And all the while exult in the mad work?
The myth of Troy is there to teach us truths we can't experience any other way. One of those stories is that of the Trojan horse. And the saying "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" applies to the Left and their ilk every bit as much now as it did then.
The sheer lunacy of turning a staple food source into fuel, a food source that requires tillage and turning it into something that does not return anything back into the ecological system from where it was taken, to destroy soil of the Great Plains for this, I just can't understand it.
Madness.
This isn't going to end well.
There's actually more to it, as well. The water will be taken from the 6 state wide Ogalalla aquifer, which has been nearly depleted. The great Dust Bowl was man-made by eliminating the native grasses in most places and replacing them with irrigated crops, i.e. plants and animals needing water from the aquifer. When the economy tanked and the farms went stale, the region had no natural ground cover, and reverted to dirt and sand.
The next Great Dust Bowl will necessarily occur after the aquifer is depleted, later this century. There is no way to stop it under the government policies which are in place.
The PBS series on the Dust Bowl did a good job of bringing this issue to the fore. The entire dust bowl region knows this, well in advance.
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