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claiming something is a tiny percentage while not providing numbers is just a failed argument

you've not properly accounted for anything in support of your own argument through anything other than anecdotes and insults

given i havent provided data, ive certainly not provided insults

there's the cement to hold the turbine in place, the production of the turbine, the making of the materials that go into it, and the transportation of everything in this chain of events

even the mining of the materials has environmental impacts that aren't easily quantifiable, you've simply peaked through a door that most people can't realistically walk through

i have a hard time believing you've somehow accounted for all of these things in privileged enough manner to go around calling other people stupid

there's all sorts of environmental impacts that are simply difficult to calculate

and whales are a big topic, as the same people making the wind turbines are the ones whose overfishing are hurting the population (the chinese). should providing money for their economy via the purchase of wind turbines effect the number of whales being hunted, then what's the difference? the changing pH isn't as big a deal as people make it out to be, and it's not widely consistent across the entire ocean either, none of this is simple enough to just brush off



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