Well, let me state right out front that I am about to ignite a fire storm. Are we conservationists or are we ecologists? Hope to instruct things like green energy and the impact on wildlife.
For the ecologists among you, you place a high value on green, renewable energy, but at the same time you are ignoring the fact that green energy is detrimental to wildlife and plant life Wind, turbines, kill hundreds of birds and bats every year. Both of these activities are illegal but the fact that it is green energy seems to overlook the fact that we’re destroying what we seek to keep. More and more grassland is disappearing under the covering of silicon, solar panels not only are the wildlife dispossessed, but so too is the flora. Wildlife can relocate, although it may not be to a suitable habitat, but the plants cannot relocate and often end up dying, because the sun that gives them nourishment is now blocked by solar panels Unfortunately, the argument about green energy global warming has become more political than environmental The science of green energy global warming climate change whatever you want to call it is flawed Some like to say that global warming climate change is caused by humans. Well, I’ve seen many studies that support that and many studies that disprove that. what I haven’t seen yet is a good scientific reason why the earth goes into an Ice Age and why the earth comes out of an Ice Age And yet again, there are many theories, but they are just that theories Without knowing the causes of an ice age or the causes of an ice age ending, we are missing a big chunk of cause-and-effect Does anyone disagree that when an ice age ends it gets warmer? Conversely, when an ice age starts, it gets colder and it has been doing that for a lot longer time than humans have been on this earth. So think about it do we want to be climate activist or do we want to be conservationist preserving what we have on this planet preserving the ecosystem that the animals and plants of this planet so desperately need I am not arguing, one way or another I have my beliefs, and you probably have yours. My purpose is to take a good look at the differences between conservation and ecology. Carl Steckler -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
