silver-grasp reblogged
The irony of doing deforestation in a land that already has nearly no forests, only to place some giant bird-killing things there in the name of “green energy.” Don’t let me even get started about how much harmful manufacturing processes need to take place to make wind turbines.
>the trees that were cut down were a commercial crop that would have been cut down regardless
>this was over a 20 year period that they planted 272 million more trees
>That 14 million is less than 1% of the total woodland area in scotland
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) confirmed to Full Fact that an estimated 13.9 million trees were felled for wind farms on land that it managed (which is about 10% of Scotland’s land and one third of its forests).
But it also said that over the same period 272 million trees were planted in Scotland by all land managers (not just FLS). This number does not include replanting commercial trees that have been felled, and on average FLS plants 25 million trees per year of this type.
FLS added that, “To date, the amount of woodland removed across Scotland’s national forests and land (managed by FLS) for windfarm development is not even 1 per cent of the total woodland area managed by FLS.”
People wanna hate renewable energy so fucking bad.
#was very relieved to scroll down and see this has already been corrected#this sort of thing is so annoying#YES there are legitimate and serious environmental and social issues associated with the transition away from fossil fuels#whether it's land use or fishing rights or mining or exploitative labor practices#but 1) let's get the facts right please#and 2) we can *work on these issues* - fossil fuels are a dead end!!#sustainability