{"id":330385,"date":"2024-05-28T08:19:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330385"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:19:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T06:19:38","slug":"german-green-movement-a-run-amok-at-the-expense-of-people-and-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330385","title":{"rendered":"German Green Movement \u201cA Run Amok At The Expense Of People And Nature\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTricksZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wind energy is an environmental destruction machine, warns veteran center-left columnist.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist block satellite countries in 1989, the West stood in awe, amazed by the environmental and economic wasteland left behind by the inefficient collective socialist system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But since then, green radicals have taken over and it\u2019s safe to say that the next generation, in about 2060, will also stand in amazement before a similar mass wreckage left behind by the \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future generation will be asking: \u201cWhat the hell were they thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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German journalist Georg Etscheit explains why in a commentary at Achgut.com here<\/a> as Germany moves ahead at full speed with wind energy. Etscheit names 5 environmental reasons why wind energy is leading to a Communist-scale environmental disaster in his article: \u201cWind power and its devastating consequences for people and nature<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ruthless way in which wind power is being pushed through in Germany is reminiscent of the brutal way in which the \u201cconcrete faction\u201d wrecked many German cities in the post-war period. A wind madness inventory..,\u201d comments Etscheit, calling Germany\u2019s drive into wind energy \u201ca run amok at the expense of people and nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany plans to add another 10,000 wind turbines in addition to its current 30,000, which means 2% of Germany\u2019s land area will be completely destroyed and industrialized, according to Etscheit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What follows are Etscheit\u2019s 5 environmental reasons why Germany\u2019s wind energy insanity is a major threat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Landscape will be blighted by the addition of 10,000 wind turbines<\/strong>, with a height of up to 250 meters. The natural biotope surrounding these turbines will be irreversibly ruined.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Endangered bird, like the red kite, will lose their habitats<\/strong>. It\u2019s estimated that an absolute collision rate of around 21 per year and wind turbine. \u201cWith 40,000 or more wind turbines planned in Germany, the million mark would soon be exceeded.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. \u00a0Bats and insects severely decimated.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWind turbines also pose a significant threat to the 25 or so species of bat found in Germany\u2026\u201d. \u2026\u201dWind turbines also have a significant impact on flying insects, as a study published in 2017 by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Oberpfaffenhofen shows \u2026 an estimated five to six billion insects per day at all German wind turbines during the warm season (200 days from April to October).\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Hazard also for marine fauna.<\/strong>\u00a0Wind turbines have a negative impact from pressure and sound waves on some animal species with an extremely sensitive sense of hearing. The industrialization of the oceans could displace native marine mammals. \u201cIf more and more offshore wind farms are built, this will have an enormous impact on the harbor porpoise populations in the North and Baltic Seas,\u201d reads\u00a0a statement from the Society for the Rescue of Dolphins<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Infrasound harming people.<\/strong>\u00a0People near wind turbines often complain of \u201csevere health complaints such as insomnia, dizziness, headaches, depression, tinnitus, hearing and vision problems and cardiac arrhythmia\u201d, and experts warn this will increase dramatically, and turbine setback regulations in Germany are being watered down.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Etscheit argues for a moratorium on the construction of new turbines, but doesn\u2019t see this happening in Germany, where officials are pressing on with the madness, \u201cno matter the costs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Georg Etscheit is an author and journalist based in Munich. He worked for the dpa agency for almost ten years, but since 2000 has preferred to write \u201cfreelance\u201d on environmental issues as well as on business, gourmet food, opera and classical music for the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, among others. He also writes for www.aufgegessen.info<\/a>, the gastrosophical blog for free enjoyment that he co-founded, and a culinary column on Achgut.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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