Greta Thunberg Is Right, Wind Turbines Are The Absolute Worst

Oslo police reportedly arrested Greta Thunberg, a climate activist for blocking entry to the finance and energy ministries of Norway with twelve other protestors. Thunberg, who was seen in the viral Twitter video, is taken by Norwegian authorities and removed from the scene.

Thunberg, a 20-year old who lectured world leaders on ineffective strategies for dealing with climate change, is odd to see a Swedish activist siding against environmentalists. Instead, Thunberg is standing with the indigenous Sami, who use Norway’s Fosen peninsula as grazing ground for reindeer, which they use for the animals’ meat, hide, and antlers. The construction of the new highway is threatening centuries-old Sami traditions. 151 wind turbines The land.

“The constructions are stealing the reindeer’s grazing land,” reindeer herder and Sámi politician Maja Kristine Jåma told CNN. The reindeer are also affected by the surrounding infrastructure of the turbines, Jåma said. “It disturbs them a lot.”

Norway’s Supreme Court ruled in favor In October 2021 the Sami argued that wind turbine permits had been invalidated because they violated their rights by infringing upon their grazing land. The wind turbines continue to operate almost a year and half later.

Why? Norway is pursuing green energy and wind turbines play a key role in that push. In Norway, hydropower accounted for more than 90 percent of the electricity produced in 2020. wind powerSecond is, which is said to have grown tenfold over the last decade as a percentage of electricity generation in the country. This is all part of the Nordic nation’s Paris climate agreement plan to cut carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. No wonder then that Norway’s largest windfar is not being sold to reindeer ranchers.

The United States will follow the example of Joe Biden. On his first day of office, President Joe Biden signed an executive directive. rejoin the Paris Agreement From which his predecessor had prudently withdrawn. Last year’s State of the Union addressJoe Biden, the President of the United States, made the pledge to “double America’s clean energy production in solar, wind, and so much more,” There are many other states that have similar laws. struggling to comply. Biden supported the increase in off-shore wind power production this year.by a factor of 714 by 2030.”

But nowhere in Biden plan Is there any mention of potential environmental dangers? There seems to be some connection, for example, between off-shore wind turbines and recent whale deaths. Noise from turbines can cause disruption in communication between marine animals. This is dangerous to dolphins, whales, and all other aquatic creatures. according to the federal government’s own research. According to environmentalists, disruption could prove fatal. Corporate media try to mask the Biden government by calling these observations a “strange observation”. Republican “conspiracy theory.”

Wind turbines have more problems than the ocean. It’s been known that they can cause the death of livestock. eaglesDisrupt wildlife habitatsWind turbines can also be used to displace nesting and feeding areas. An analysis done in 2013 found that wind turbines can kill estimated 140,000 to 328,000 birds each year in the U.S. — a number that’s surely higher after another decade of climate-crazed activism. This is to not mention the harmful effects that wind turbines can have on people. Residents have come forward to report that turbines were installed in rural Massachusetts, Vermont and New York. symptoms Such as fatigue, nausea, insomnia, fatigue and an increase in stress caused by the turbine blades’ constant whirring.

Joy Pullmann (my colleague) has also correctly pointed this out pointed out, “Wind farms don’t just hurt the environment and boost China, they’re ugly as sin.”

But with the devastating effects they have had on animal and human life, wind turbines are not a good substitute. coal Or nuclear energy. Wind turbines can be unreliable and depend on the wind to work. However, they are only a tiny fraction of America’s energy consumption. By 2020, both wind and solar will make up the majority. Both All accounts less than 5 percent of total energy consumption. A lot more eagles and whales will have to be sacrificed — as well as age-old farming practices like the Sami’s reindeer grazing — if wind turbines are ever to become a more viable energy source.

“Indigenous rights, human rights, must go hand-in-hand with climate protection and climate action. That can’t happen at the expense of some people. Then it is not climate justice,” Thunberg spoke Reuters.

It turns out she is right this time. If environmental policy is anti-human, anti-nature it must be rejected.

Victoria Marshall works as a staff writer for The Federalist. She has had her writing featured in The New York Post and National Review. Hillsdale College graduated her in May 2021, with a double major in journalism and politics. Follow her @vemrshll on Twitter