By P Gosselin on 6. August 2021
Dystopian nature protection….500 wind turbines in state forests, millions of tons of concrete and steel…deforestation, permanently destroyed biotopes.
A large part of southwestern Germany’s idyllic natural landscape is about to be industrialized by 1000 “environmentally friendly” wind turbines.
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Germany faces an ecological dystopia. Image: Windwahn.
How wind power endangers Germany’s nature and the health of its citizens
By Werner Köppen
www.klima-diegrossetransformation.de
(Translated, subheadings by P. Gosselin)
“State wants to build 500 new wind turbines in the state forest,” was the headline in the Badische Zeitung on July 26 over the decision by Germany’s Baden-Württemberg state government. This decision is the first step by the state coalition government of The Greens and CDU to build 1000 wind turbines in the next legislative period.
The news came only a few days after the flood disaster in North Rhine Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, where it was quite obvious that a lack of flood plains was the main cause of the floods. Now policymakers have decided to destroy even more valuable forest areas and to seal the deforested ground with tens of thousands of tons of concrete.
Permanently disfigured landscape
Each wind turbine means the clear-cutting of 0.35 km2 of forest, lost CO2 and moisture reservoirs, all to be sealed by 3500 tons of concrete each for each turbine. To date, such concrete blocks have never been removed, insurmountable obstacles to deep-rooted trees and natural water control.
Moreover, two other negative impacts have been ignored by the press so far. First, scientific research that shows wind turbines slow down the wind and cause temperature increases locally, two effects that dry out the soil.
Infrasound
Even more serious is the health risk, and it is incomprehensible that in an environmentally and health-conscious country like Germany, medical warnings about infrasound from wind turbines are not discussed in detail, and are even systematically downplayed.
Slipshod health impact assessments
According to the current state of knowledge, the approval of wind turbines is done according to inappropriate regulations and standards, i.e. infrasound is wrongly evaluated. The medical reactions of desperate residents near wind farms, who seek protection from the agonizing sound waves, are dismissed as imaginary illnesses. Some are left with the sole option of abandoning their own homes. Yet, medical experts have been warning for some time about the harmful effects of infrasound on blood vessels and brain functions.
Ideology
Currently, the global temperature increase since 1979 has been about 0.15 °C per decade (see Vahrenholt, Lüning: Unwanted Truths), the world is far from the 4 to 6 °C by 2100 predicted in the first scare stories about climate change. Moreover, according to current science, carbon dioxide is not the main driver of global warming. But scientific technical debate has become secondary today. In the group of the so-called “climate protectors” there is no willingness to question their thesis of man-made climate change.
Under these conditions, it is irresponsible to turn our country, Germany, into an industrial landscape and, moreover, to sacrifice our health and prosperity.
Overriding Ministry of Climate Protection
Just a few days ago, the Green Party has presented its so-called climate protection emergency program, which would grant a climate protection ministry a veto right against all present laws that are not Paris-compliant. Thus, a radical eco-socialist system would be imposed on Germany, with a 2.5% share of global CO2 emissions, in a rush.
On this subject, my website www.klima-diegrossetransformation.de compiles the scientific evidence, mutatis mutandis.
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne.
The obedience tendency of Germans surely has a limit. They’ve watched the destruction of their culture, economy and values by Gov open doors to the hords (can we make a logical connection re mental health of Merkel to the open door come-what-may of the US head of state?). Germans seem born with a strong love of nature, though. Will the clear cutting plan be a bridge too far? Let’s hope so.
I suspect that the Germans are afraid of electing competent leaders, fearing that they will get another Hitler.
Beside being a maniac, Hitler was not very competent.
But I see your point. If the Germans allow the above forest destruction and fill it with concrete, they deserve the consequences. It’s up to those with some kind of brain to illuminate the gravity of that decision, and for others to allow it to be heard.
Only healthy and wealthy countries like the USA, Germany, Australia, and the UK can subsidize electricity from breezes and sunshine, and intermittent electricity at best. The 80 percent of the 8 billion on earth living on less than 10 dollars a day cannot subsidize themselves out of a paper bag. Those poorer countries must rely on affordable and abundant coal for reliable electricity, while residents in the healthy and wealthier countries pay dearly for those subsidies with some of the highest cost for electricity in the world.
I have been told many times that this simply is not done. Nobody cuts down trees for stuff like this.
I would bet I could show this to the people who have said that, and they would still maintain their position.
The lunacy of this plan..it could ONLY be conceived by big, big government where all moronic ideas get their day!
Clearly the “Precautionary Principle” forbids windfarm development until all human, animal (including insects), and plant effects that may be injurious or even non beneficial are fully investigated and shown to be absolutely safe. (sarcasm. if necessary to say)
As a bonus you get more wood chip mixture with coal burning for DRAX etc. /sarc
Man should learn from beavers and build natural dams (not concrete ones) in swamps and floodplains. This is the only way to lower temperatures locally.
I read yesterday where there are plans to put 1,000 new windmills in Wyoming, just as soon as they settle the claims of landowners who are holding up the building of transmission lines.
The builders want to send the electricity all the way to California from Wyoming.
More dispoiled landscape.
This is where all their insects have gone, all smashed up on the blades. That is if it’s true about the loss of insects.
Michael Shellenberger, (p195 Apocalypse Never) quotes a German researcher, Dr Franz Trieb of the Institute of Thermodynamics in a paper “Interference of Flying Insects and Wind Parks” Sept 30th 2018
“Wind-rich migration trails used by insects for millions of years are increasingly seamed by wind farms” and a “rough but conservative estimate of the impact of wind farms on flying insects in Germany” is a “loss of about 1.2 trillion insects of different species per year” which “could be relevant for population stability.”
Ominously when he emailed Dr Trieb to ask for an interview he was told that Dr Trieb “cannot give any interviews on that topic” with the Institute saying “please accept” that neither they nor Dr Trieb “are available for further comment on this topic.”
Flying insects are important parts of the ecosystem and play a crucial role in pollination,for example.