…you think that it is a refutation of the argument that wind power kills large quantities of birds (particularly large birds of prey) to point out that domestic cats kill more birds than wind turbines. As my former colleague Daren Bakst points out “following [this logic] it would be fine for a company to spill toxins in a lake even if it kills 100,000 fish because sharks kill millions of fish.”
by Dr. Roy Cordato
Senior Economist Emeritus