Are we cruel for not caring about the birds killed by wind turbines?
Each year, a bird has about a 1 in 20,000 chance of dying in a wind turbine collision.
Blame cats.
If we pick the middle number, a bird is 5,300 times more likely to die by cat than by a wind turbine.
Blame windows.
It’s been estimated that 200,000 birds died during the spill’s critical phase and more than 1 million more died later of spill’s effects.
At least wind can’t spill.
Blame coal.
The number of birds killed by wind and other renewable energy sources is a fraction of the estimated 7,900,000 killed by coal.
Coal burns as the birds fall to the ground.