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Endangered species law & grassroots resistance have halted growth of German wind energy

In response, the wind industry is demanding that it be exempted from the law and allowed to kill endangered birds & bats in the name of “climate protection”

welt.de/wirtschaft/art…
Industrial wind energy has emerged as one of the greatest threats to endangered bird and bat species, as well as insect populations, around the world.

Here’s why

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The transition to renewables was doomed because modern industrial people, no matter how Romantic they are, do not want to return to pre-modern life.

The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to.

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Mike Shellenberger
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Don’t believe Fukushima hype

- “Natural” radiation far greater than from accident

- No harm *possible* to humans from tritium, a mildly radioactive H isotope

- Greenpeace fear-mongering hurts Japanese fishermen & the planet

Because science

@JimConca

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Nuclear energy

- Has *saved* 2M lives

- Just ~200 deaths *total* from *all* nuclear accidents

- 5x more people die on streets of LA in one year

- Is *inherently* safest because nuclear fuel energy dense

*Fear* of nuclear, on other hand, is deadly

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
Nuclear facts

- Pollution from living in big city increases mortality 2.8x *more* than being Chernobyl clean-up worker

- Eating normal food = 200x more radiation than from Chernobyl

- Fear & panic — spread by @Greenpeace et al. — has resulted in death & suffering
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Mike Shellenberger
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Homelessness raging out of control in California

- Trump may intervene
- Death, rapes, assaults rising
- Calif. has 90k on streets but NYC shelters 95% of homeless

What's going on?

Here's why California keeps making homelessness worse

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
LA's $1.2B investment in housing “was supposed to build 10,000 units but in truth will create half that because each one costs $527,000 to $700,000,” said Bales.

“They will take ten years to build, at which point 44,000 lives will have been destroyed by living on the street.”
Last Thursday, the day I published the above piece, the 28th homeless person was killed this year in Los Angeles.

He was discovered in a shopping cart, burned to death

nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Hom…
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Mike Shellenberger
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New US Census data show California is #1 in poverty:

- High: California, 18%
- Medium: Alabama, 14%
- Low: Iowa, 7%

7M people live in poverty in California

Reason is high cost of living

census.gov/library/public…
Why is it so important to consider the cost of living when measuring poverty?

Just imagine how different it is to live on (US median income) of $61,000/year in Alabama vs. California

Background

politifact.com/california/sta…
Time for action

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