Giving the Bird

I confess. I am a 5G skeptic ... see: Mind Boggling. Yes, 5G technology may be required for eeffective and safe driverless cars ... and for live streaming of high-resolution video. But it appears it will come with a cost ... possibly too high a cost. A recent 5G test in the Netherlands has resulted in alarming number of dead birds ... see: Captain Planet Story. It seems that we have not been killing enough birds with our  giant windmills. Now we have to fry them with high-energy RF waves eminating from 5G transmitters that will have to be located everywhere.

It is estimated that, for the US to go completely 5G, there would need to be millions of transmitters. Extrapolating from the tests of this technology at The Hague, this could mean the quick deaths of hundreds of millions of birds. And who knows how this mass kill-off would evolve over time ... or whether other species would be affected ... like man?

Where are you, Rachael Carson, now that we need you?

Manatees Too

Remember the spotted owl? Its "threatened extinction" was the reason that the environmentalist used to reduce drastically the cutting of timber in the northwest United States. How about the snail darter? Again a creature that was the poster child for shutting off water to the farmers of the Central Valley of California. And the peregrine falcon? Rachael Carson used this bird as a way of outlawing DDT (and in the process killing millions of humans with malaria, etc.) And the salmon ... goodbye to any new hydroelectric dams ... and even a sizable parcel of older ones.

Enter stage left the manatee ... which now it is believed relies on the warm water exiting from coal-fired power plants in Florida to ease the rigors of cold weather there ... see: Miami Herald Article. But wait! This can't be! If the tree-huggers were to be consistent, they would fight our fearless leader's war on such "environmental hazards" as the use of coal to produce electricity.

But are they?   [... crickets ....]   One can only assume that these other animals were really incidental to the real hidden agendas of those who knew that they knew what was best for the rest of us.