Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin have the same problem with wind power: 'How many birds die?'
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump have for years shared the same concern that birds were being killed en masse by wind turbines."we in Russia are hit the hardest" by the effects of climate change, noting that the temperature in his country was growing"2.5 times faster" than the global average. Speaking at
"Everybody knows that wind power is good, but is anyone thinking about the birds? How many birds die? They shake the ground so much that the worms crawl out. This is not a joke, really, it is a serious side-effect of these modern modes of energy generation. I am not saying it should not be developed, of course it should, but let's not forget the related problems," he added.
along the campaign trail and, though he defeated Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in 2016, Trump continued to cite her in his anti-wind stance in recent months. Projections for the generation of electricity from renewable sources in the U.S. from 2017 through 2020.Unlike Trump's cancer claims, his—and Putin's—bird-killing theory does hold some weight, but is a relatively minimal threat to the creatures when compared to some of the mass killers out there, at least in the U.S.
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