Friday, April 01, 2011
An endangered species that matters
Bats are being killed en masse by two plagues: a spreading fungal disease and wind turbines.
And each dead bat matters, because each bat eats a whole lot of bugs. Without bats around, bugs consume our crops. We then have to use more pesticides, but the effective pesticides are banned by the same marauding enemy army that requires us to install more bat-mincing turbines.
Your national suicide, brought to you as ever by the generously genocidal EPA.
Polistra watches in horror. Happystar can't bear to watch. ¶ 5:47 AM
The study found that more than a million bats have died in North America during the past five years due to fungal diseases. Some estimates are that "by 2020, wind turbines will have killed 33,000 to 111,000 annually in the Mid-Atlantic Highlands alone."
And each dead bat matters, because each bat eats a whole lot of bugs. Without bats around, bugs consume our crops. We then have to use more pesticides, but the effective pesticides are banned by the same marauding enemy army that requires us to install more bat-mincing turbines.
Your national suicide, brought to you as ever by the generously genocidal EPA.
Polistra watches in horror. Happystar can't bear to watch. ¶ 5:47 AM
