I work with a few textbook treehuggers and 'greenies', and at a conference in Nebraska last year there was truck after truck hauling these huge turbines out there. Every one of them was talking about how silly these things were. While we were there, the sandhill cranes were migrating through. Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes along the Platte River, and yes they do get chopped up.
Another counterpoint to that is this morning on KPEL radio, the host (who is uber duber conservative) made a good point and that is its not a bad thing to explore other means of energy production, no one will disagree with that. Seriously take a look at a map of our coast and look at these oil/gas pipelines and canals crisscrossing our marshes that have had hugely negative effects to the environment and what do we get for it? As much oil and gas that comes out of Louisiana, we should have the highest paid teachers, best schools, and best roads in the country, but thats obviously not the case.
I am all for oil and gas production for the record, offshore, inshore, fracking, whatever. just making some points
nuclear is definitely the way to go, but its just a scary word
1 billion birds dying from window strikes is believable, found many dead birds outside my parents house with big windows