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karstadtt t1_jaly62t wrote

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

Wherever you build them, there are problems. Build near-shore, costs explode and seagulls get whacked. Build on land, locals complain (noise, health-issues, tourism rate decline, reduction of property value) and hawks and buzzards get whacked.

Same discussion as with nuclear energy. People want clean energy, but please, do not leave the waste near us. Hypocrites everywhere.

Greta is a fool for getting used as a public figure for some local interests. Having only demanded things for years without thinking of the downsides of each solution, she lost all credibility. Her most famous quote is something along the lines of "Our job (as activists) is to demand , not to propose solutions." What a joke.

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KaisarDragon t1_jamdxbx wrote

Everything you just said is irrelevant to the article. The point was she isn't protesting wind farms.

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karstadtt t1_jaobobx wrote

She is protesting existing wind farms. This means she IS protesting wind farms. Make it harder to build these things and they won't be built at all. She is asking to remove working turbines from a certain area (thus wasting tonnes of precious resources) without suggesting where to put them instead, with all the financial and legal implications that it would have. For example, how to enforce raising turbines near villages where peoples health would be compromised or how much it costs to compensate those people. Again, she is demanding things like a toddler, not proposing a solution.

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KaisarDragon t1_jaojarj wrote

She is still protesting where they are built, not wind farms. Look, no matter how you twist it, you need to get rid of that hate boner. You look pathetic.

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