Unfounded claims about offshore wind threatening whales have surfaced as a flashpoint in the fight over the future of renewable energy.
In recent months, conservatives including former President Donald Trump have claimed construction of offshore wind turbines is killing the giant animals.
Scientists say there is no credible evidence linking offshore wind farms to whale deaths. But that hasn’t stopped conservative groups and ad hoc “not in my back yard”-style anti-development groups from making the connection.
The Associated Press sorts fact from fiction when it comes to whales and wind power as the rare North Atlantic right whale’s migration season gets underway.
This is nonsense, and I think you know it. If you buy a chicken from the store, they will take your few dollars that you spent and spend it on another chicken to replace the one you bought. They may not keep track of which dollar bills were spent on chickens and only use those dollar bills to buy more, but that’s a meaningless distinction. You bought a chicken, and gave the company some number of dollars and now the company is going to spend some number of dollars more on chickens than it otherwise would have. You have paid the company to pay a farm to kill another chicken. You have, via the transitive property, paid for a farm to kill another chicken.
there is no transitive property, unless you think the people running the store and the farm have no free will. i don’t make their decisions for them.
I know it’s you, commie, you’re the only one who replies like this. Did you get banned or something, and had to switch to an alt account?
cogently, on-topic, and without personal attacks?
Making an individual reply to every sentence in the parent comment, having the effect of spamming the thread with dozens and dozens of replies and chains that make it hard to keep track of what we’re actually arguing about.
i found meandering, multifaceted comments muddy the waters. I think the shorter comments keep it much clearer.
this is a counterfactual. it cannot be proven
no. i paid for the food they had at that moment. there is no other transaction for which i am responsible.