If you think littering the landscape with these is “environmental protection,” you clearly have a distorted way of thinking.
@ChrisMartzWX Not all turbines are bad. Some help to create localized cooling.
@ChrisMartzWX Those monstrosities are called raptor killers. How does that make them environmentally friendly ?
@ChrisMartzWX To the left visual pollution is a feature, not a bug.
Across nations, the commitment to renewables clearly follows a cultural pattern, which thus is not related to their climates or climate exposures, or science/tech factors, or even rationality. The pattern is imposed by climate catastrophism, a proven* secular religion. *see link in my profile; paperback and free PDF; book endorsed by profs frank Furedi and Judith Curry. Chapter 12 covers the global pattern of renewables commitment.
@ChrisMartzWX Take a look at the strip mines in Wyoming. Removal of entire mountains for coal mining in Appalachia. Open your eyes.
@ChrisMartzWX Bird blenders. They are hideous and just a form of pollution.