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qwertox ◴[] No.45037882[source]
A country can commit to 300 years of wind energy, temporarily harming a bit of nature.

Once a better solution has been found, the land can be freed for the nature to take over again.

We have no issues with stealing a couple of square miles of nature in order to pave it for our cities or to use it for farming.

Once you remove the wind turbines, the harm you've done to the nature was minimal: production of the turbines, used area and generated noise, minimal pollution of the area, the troubles of recycling them. That's mostly it.

You don't have this with oil, nor with current-age nuclear.

Also, we've already accepted the noise of cars, trucks, motorcycles and planes.

So I really don't get what they are protesting about, specially in Germany.

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mfld ◴[] No.45038440[source]
I assume most protests are driven by a Not In My Backyard attitude.
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mcv ◴[] No.45038771[source]
Yeah, but those people still have roads, large buildings and factories in their backyard.
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1. badpun ◴[] No.45038921[source]
You can't have civilization without roads, so people naturally accept them. Large buildings and factories are not common in the countryside, and people do protest when you try building them in their backyards. No different than wind farms.