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The David Horowitz Freedom Center Is Under Attack. Learn More Here. FRONTPAGE MAG > "Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" > > @Horowitz39, David Horowitz * * The Point * Authors * David Horowitz * Store * Who We Are * DH TV * * Mailing List * Donate WIND TURBINES ARE DESTROYING THE PLANET Green energy leads to sex trafficking, terrorism, drugs and deforestation. Fri Aug 19, 2022 Daniel Greenfield 54 comments AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to FacebookFacebookShare to TwitterTwitterShare to MoreAddThis256Share to PrintPrint Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. New York, along with other states, is moving forward with massive wind turbine projects. The push for "9,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy" comes at a high price, not only for families who are left dependent on expensive and unreliable energy, but for the planet. Wind turbines require massive amounts of rare earths for their generators and motors. A single wind turbine eats up tons of rare earth metals. Rare earth mining carried out in China is horrifyingly destructive to people and the environment. One story described radioactive lakes, high cancer rates and villagers whose "teeth began to fall out" and "hair turned white at unusually young ages". "Children were born with soft bones and cancer rates rocketed." A recent Associated Press story about rare earth mining operations in Burma told of a world where "birds no longer sing, and the herbs no longer grow. The fish no longer swim in rivers that have turned a murky brown." An offshore wind turbine can produce somewhere between 9 and 14 megawatts depending on its size. New York's goal would require a thousand offshore wind turbines. Fiberglass wind turbine blades can’t be recycled and end up in massive landfills where they remain, according to one executive, “forever”. But within the fiberglass sheath is balsa wood that can be recycled. Balsa wood is light, airy and popular for everything from model airplanes to planes. The obsession with green energy has created a massive demand for balsa wood to use in wind turbines. While a story from 2020 about how 14 million trees had been cut down in Scotland to make way for wind farms recently went viral, far more trees are cut down to make turbines. Billions of trees. One wind turbine blade can require as much as 5,300 cubic feet of balsa wood. The price of balsa wood shot up, driven by demand from Communist China. While the Chinese have tried to grow their own balsa with limited success, they have turned to deforesting the Amazon. The Amazon, the world’s largest carbon sink, is being destroyed to reduce carbon. Environmentalists are destroying the planet to save the planet. Even while they were profiting from an artificial "green boom" fed by western green special interests, astroturf activists, fraudulent science, and pop culture crisis, Chinese companies were wiping out millions of trees in the name of saving the planet from a manufactured emergency. Companies answering to Chinese interests found isolated tribes, traded them drugs and alcohol for slave labor, encouraged violence against those who would not comply, and the results were hailed by western environmentalists. The costs of China’s “wind power boom” were ignored. China is working to build 18 megawatt wind turbines and dominate wind energy in Europe. The path of its poisonous silk road runs through the Amazon and to western environmentalists who believe that wind is clean and therefore wind turbines are a pure source of energy. Balsa is an ideal forestry crop. It grows quickly and must be harvested before it ages too much. The rising price of balsa wood has also expanded growing operations, taking over farms and plantations leading to hunger and disease. "These paradoxes of the so-called 'green economy' ruin the natural stability of the forests and the jungle," a World Rainforest Movement report warned. While wind turbines, when in operation, already kill as much as three-quarters of a million birds a year, turbine deforestation kills countless more birds by destroying their habitats. Green eco-business and its allied leftist politicians remain obsessed with carbon, but the Amazon rainforests have been described as the “lungs” of the planet. And environmentalists themselves argue that the Amazon is a "carbon storage sink". Destroying the Amazon to build wind turbines to reduce carbon would wreck the planetary ecosystem leading to the natural disasters that green energy proponents claim that they want to stop. If astroturf environmental activists really wanted to save the planet, they would start chaining themselves to wind turbines, instead of vandalizing classical museum paintings. The obsession with ‘carbon neutrality’ will only make matters worse. Eco-industries calculate the ‘carbon footprint’ of wind turbine emissions based mostly on their construction. Those emissions are assessed against the mining operations, concrete, rare earths and fiberglass, that go into making them. In order to lower their carbon metrics, eco-industries are now promoting wind turbines made out of wood which would lead to the destruction of more forests while increasing the price of housing even further to put it out of the reach of millions of people. Saving the planet has now come to mean cutting down even more trees. In Latin America, green energy has destroyed forests, spread drugs and also led to the kidnapping and sex trafficking of young girls. Logging mining camps, especially illegal ones, depend on a steady supply of male workers. The abduction and rape of underage girls has been traced back to the system feeding balsa wood to the wind turbines of China and Europe. That is what green energy actually looks like. One reported noted that, “Young girls are encouraged by mothers and aunts to exchange sex for diesel so they can watch their favorite soap operas each night and escape the harshness of their lives for a few hours.” So much for saving the planet. The black market in balsa wood has attracted the attention of socialist narcoterrorists in South America and Islamic terrorists in Africa. Wind turbines are becoming another profit center for drug cartels and Jihadists, spreading ruin and destruction around the world. Wind turbines were billed as saving the planet. They’re destroying it instead. Share WONDERING WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR DISQUS COMMENTS? Read the Story Lock Thread Login Add CommentM ↓ Markdown UpvotesNewestOldest C Craig Austin 11 points 21 hours ago CO2 is the gas of life, the green lobby is trying to reduce the global population to a manageable level and appoint themselves as managers. F fireciv487 -1 points 79 minutes ago ★彡[𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞]彡★ Start your home business right now. Spend more time with your family and earn.Start bringing 95$/hour just on a computer. Very easy way to make your life happy and earning continuously.... :) AND GOOD LUCK.:) HERE====)> https://frontpagemag0.blogspot.com/ K Kelly Perez -1 points 2 hours ago I get paid over 💵200$💵 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 💵10k💵 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless. Heres what I've been doing.. :) AND GOOD LUCK.:) HERE====)> https://www.Worksful.com V Virginia 7 points 18 hours ago Yesterday (in tandem with soon to be announced revived virus scares and mail in voting demands) democrats announced their rock bottom position to influence voting in less than 3 months: Republicans are simply EVIL Vis a vis the planet, democrats have declared life sustaining CO2 to be EVIL, and fossil fuels (which they copiously consume while bopping about the world to spread the word) as deadly. These people are profoundly stupid while unashamedly devious. J Jeff Bargholz 0 points 2 hours ago Yeah and their fake news media are" dutifully promoting the Republicans are evil" meme all over in conjunction. A Algorithmic Analyst 6 points 25 hours ago Nice, biting sarcasm and irony. D dwayne robertson 5 points 21 hours ago Windmills will save the planet. And Dulcinea was a lady.. A Algorithmic Analyst 3 points 19 hours ago Thanks Dwayne! Don Quixote was quite a novel, insightful far ahead of its time. I was thinking earlier, my SF Bay neighborhood was so Democratic that there were windmills even in the early 1970s. I can still see one in my mind's eye, that I used to walk by often. My Dad's second wife was already into composting back then (Dad just paid the bills :) She had some expensive equipment to do it. It seemed absurd to me at the time, though I knew nothing intellectually about environmentalism back then. That composting nonsense was probably one factor in turning me against environmentalism already in the 1970s. D dwayne robertson 9 points 18 hours ago Composting makes more sense in San Fran today than it did back in the day. All the streets are brown, and the sky is grey. Be careful where you walk, especially by the bay! Too green, the impossible dream. I Internalexile 5 points 18 hours ago Clever. :-) T TruthLaser 3 points 10 hours ago I left my turd in San Francisco, high on a hill. It is now Newsom's alto ego. D dwayne robertson 4 points 8 hours ago Shh hitten on the dock of the bay Wastin time... J Jeff Bargholz 3 points 6 hours ago I never knew wind turbine blades were sheathed over balsa wood. A Algorithmic Analyst 1 point 3 hours ago Yeah, what a trip, they use balsa wood. We used to make little glider planes which were made of balsa wood. I haven't thought about that for a long time, almost disappeared from my memory :) J Jeff Bargholz 1 point 2 hours ago Yeah, me too. My step father used to build planes from scratch and put little propeller engines on them. Sometimes he would use index cards as a body over a balsa wood frame. He was good with that stuff although I notice he never made any for us kids. R Roger Holberg 4 points 19 hours ago So insane. Net you didn't hear about this in our garbage "news media:" https://clintel.org/world-climate-declaration/ U Una Salus 3 points 23 hours ago The only sustainable solution is to go North Korea. V Very Real Name 0 points 14 hours ago No there are plenty. Light rail NYC and power consumption drops, and selling urainum to Russia instead of powering homes didn't save the environment either. K Kit_Jefferson 2 points 12 hours ago Which illustrates that Popular Science isn't always accurate. J Jeff Bargholz 1 point 6 hours ago That magazine went "woke" before that was even a term. S steve grant 2 points 12 hours ago A couple decades ago here in Maine, the greenies were frantically trying stop logging operations to "save the forests." The joke was....93% of the state was forest. J Jeff Bargholz 2 points 6 hours ago Maybe the wind turbine industry should be called "The Green Inferno." P poetcomic1 1 point 15 hours ago Who will even try to refute ANY of the facts stated here. ALL are absolutely true. T Tershia Lambrechts 1 point 3 hours ago You have that right, Mr. Greenfield - thank you for revealing the truth. I have no words to describe the insanity of building and using wind turbines, that are responsible for the death of our ecosystem and ultimately mankind as well. Those responsible pretend to be environmentalists, but are evil people imo, full of lies, deceit , hypocrisy and indifference to the beauty of nature and the One who created it. There will be no happy ending for any of them. M Mo de Profit 0 points 25 minutes ago "Logging mining camps, especially illegal ones, depend on a steady supply of male workers. " Misogyny! When the Latin American world catches up with the woke world there's going to be dozens of alternatives to male workers. A Avianthro -1 points 5 hours ago Sorry my friend, although you make valid points about the current state of wind turbine tech and the sickening results of demands it has created, the reality for the future looks very different: There is already a turbine blade recycling process. There is a new type of generator tech in development that will require no rare earth metals, not even any magnets at all. There is also a replacement for balsa. The problem of destroying forests to set-up wind turbine farms should also be going away as more and more wind energy will come from offshore (where it's most abundant and least impactive on ecosystems) and the energy captured there can be converted to liquid hydrocarbons (by Renewable Fischer Tropsch Synthesis) for distribution via the same infrastructure now used for oil. Yes, as it stands now the situation is seriously f***ed-up, but there is awareness in the industry and changes are coming. The thing that is irksome to me more than anything else is that the players (investors and builders) are continuing to do the current bad wind turbine tech instead of putting a moratorium on it until they can get things right, and I think the reason we are doing this is out of unfounded concern over AGW and of course their quest to make money ASAP while trying to appear green...same basic situation as with the Tesla-class EV. What we should be doing, rationally, is increasing our efficiency with fossil fuels and getting renewable energy fully up to spec before we make the full transition to it...ultimately, of course, we MUST make a transition away from fossils...They are finite in supply and getting scarcer every moment as we burn them up...without energy modern economics is dead. That's the problem that deserves attention and timely,careful, deliberate action, not the AGW BS and its prophesies of doomsday right around the corner. C Catkid 3 points 5 hours ago 200 years supply of fossil fuel at hand & more undiscovered. That’s not an immediate “ must” T Tershia Lambrechts 2 points 2 hours ago There is NO replacement for all the useful wildlife that is destroyed in your process. Not to mention the eyesore on nature that they cause, regardless of how you envision their improvement. There is more to life than making money. J Jeff Bargholz 2 points 115 minutes ago And his processes don't make reliable or even viable energy generators. J Jeff Bargholz 1 point 119 minutes ago Yeah, right. And we'll all have electric cars with plenty of infrastructure and power to service them. Bull and Shit. Oil, natural gas and coal aren't fossils and they're plentiful, unlike electric potential, which isn't even renewable. There's far more oil available than the materials necessary for the Green Inferno. V Very Real Name -3 points 14 hours ago The government is here to help the environment. I'm just surprised at right wingers backing it, and that's all that happened. S sumsrent -5 points 14 hours ago I'm not sure why anyone would care if those dirty little Chinese communist slaves were getting sick from mining these materials ... The less Chinese we have the less chance China has to take over the world with communism... aye? C Catkid 1 point 5 hours ago You must have missed your medicine again today. G Gerald Azenaro -8 points 20 hours ago This is retarded. You are retarded. All you people are retarded. D Daniel Greenfield 8 points 15 hours ago Too much soy, not enough beef T TruthLaser 2 points 10 hours ago The result is a teriyakker. V Very Real Name 0 points 14 hours ago Well if they will destroy the planet and trade drugs and rape for trees they might also have a 50 cent party lying troll. N Nunya Bidness 7 points 19 hours ago Very impressive rebuttal. The facts and counter arguments you've elucidated clearly demonstrate the ad hominem attacks in the article as the debate tactics of a cretin. A alex9234 4 points 16 hours ago Earth Day is Lenin’s Birthday. A Algorithmic Analyst 1 point 12 hours ago Yeah, they cleverly snuck that in, while nobody at the time was aware of such things. J Jeff Bargholz 1 point 6 hours ago And they're still denying and lying about it. J Jeff Bargholz 1 point 6 hours ago The first one but didn't they change the date on the next version of Earth Day? J Jeff Topps 3 points 19 hours ago Looking in the mirror, again, Gerald? Come back when you grow up. T TruthLaser 3 points 10 hours ago He already gruesome. J Jeff Bargholz 1 point 6 hours ago Wassa matter? Not enough twelve year old prostitutes, chopped down forests, dead birds and pollution to suit you? Move to China. You can get some powdered tiger penis for your impotence there, too. 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