Posted on 09/17/2023 12:37:52 PM PDT by karpov
JUAZEIRO, Brazil—Weighing more than 100 pounds, big cats have long reigned over this hot and semi-arid region of Brazil, developing tougher paws for the scorched earth and reaching speeds of 50 miles an hour to bring down wild boar and deer.
But nothing could have prepared for them the 150-foot blades now slicing up the deep blue sky above them.
Jaguars and pumas are facing extinction in the Caatinga, Brazil’s northeastern shrublands, as Europe and China pour investment into wind farms, puncturing the land with vast turbines that are scaring the animals away from the region’s scant water sources.
Particularly sensitive to changes to their habitat, the jaguars and pumas abandon their lairs as soon as construction work on the wind farms begins, said Claudia Bueno de Campos, a biologist who helped found the group Friends of the Jaguars and has tracked the region’s vanishing feline population. They then roam vast distances across the dusty plains in search of new streams and rivers.
The weakest perish along the way. Others venture closer to villages, where locals have started laying traps to protect their small herds of goats and sheep, often their only form of survival in this impoverished region.
The wind power industry has doubled its capacity in Brazil since 2018, setting the country up to be the world’s fourth-biggest producer by 2027 behind China, the U.S. and Germany, according to the Brazilian Wind Power Association, an industry body.
But by helping to solve one problem—climate change—the wind industry risks creating others, warn conservationists. Indigenous groups recently staged protests in Brazil over the installation of turbines on lands they say are rightfully theirs, while environmentalists have also raised concerns that wind farms installed on compacted sand dunes on the northern coast could have damaged underground water reservoirs.
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WTF is PETA? Whales, Brazil’s cats, other animals, I’m sure, dying because of this BS.
The World is in a Climate Emergency. Pumas need to do their part.
That’s just because there aren’t enough wind farms. If there were a hundred or a thousand times as many windmills the big cats would get used to them and all would be well. Let’s get this started by clear-cutting the Amazon to make way for responsible, sustainable, environmentally-friendly wind farms.
These stupid things are causing far more problems than benefits. I hate them.
I say we take off and nuke the whales from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
on the chart of intersectionality
the tyrannical green new deal
tops all
I know that feeling.
Unexpected...
Nuclear is by far the best way to go as it generates the most with the least overall cost. Its biggest problem is too many elites are making too much money on solar and wind. In the end if government is promoting something it’s all about the money.
Well, what can you expect from Brazil. They “elect” a piece of commie trash who promptly hounds his conservative opponent out of the country and into jail.
Sound familiar?
Winds farms are virtue signaling and money laundering for the CCP — a cut comes right back to every politico who voted for them.
“We have to destroy the environment to save it.”
We can’t have dams or irrigation because of snail darters, but windmills killing Jaguars and Pumas, no problem for the enviro whackos. The hypocrisy of the Left is staggering.
Orders of magnitude more people will die due to climate change policy than any change in the natural climate.
Too bad for Jaguars and pumas and all kinds of whales and birds of prey seeing their demise via windmills as long as the Greeniacs are happy with AOC’s and their “Green Screw Deal” .
The blades are a problem too. They are difficult to dispose of, cause even more damage.
Truth be known, the people who came up with this, don't care about the the planet.
They're making money, that's their only concern. Big cats, birds, whales exc...being harmed don't matter to them.
Losing all jaguars of no importance compared to losing the spotted owl
Funny how the big bucks hang out by the pumpjacks in East tx.
the perfect liberal dilemma...should be worth a few hundred million worth of grants from somebody...
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