Climate Change Weekly #514: 🦇 Evidence Mounts that Green Tech Is Wiping Out Species 🐦
H. Sterling Burnett
August 1, 2024
Evidence Mounts that Green Tech Is Wiping Out Species
I and other Heartland Institute scholars have written before about the bird, bat, and marine mammals that industrial wind is killing around the world. The Heartland Institute has also written concerning industrial solar’s threat to desert species, including the endangered desert tortoise, and also to birds.
Those are species directly killed by the technologies as they function. New research indicates the indirect harmful impact of “green energy” on animal species may be even greater than the direct deaths from the technologies when operating.
A study published in the journal Current Biology by a team of researchers from the University of Sheffield and Cambridge University finds the world’s pursuit of net zero carbon dioxide emissions, in large part through the expansion of industrial wind, solar, and battery power (the latter for transportation and backup electric power), is threatening thousands of species indirectly, through the mining and infrastructure required to construct, install, and make green technologies operational.
https://heartlanddailynews.com/2024/08/climate-change-weekly-514-%f0%9f%a6%87-evidence-mounts-that-green-tech-is-wiping-out-species-%f0%9f%90%a6/#:~:text=A%20study%20published%20in%20the%20journal%20Current%20Biology,to%20construct%2C%20install%2C%20and%20make%20green%20technologies%20operational.
