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Wind Turbines, Near Tracy, CA, 2010.
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Wind Turbines, Near Tracy, CA, 2010.
A histogram of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497
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@mattblaze@federate.social it's interesting to compare that to the pollution footprint from fossil plants as well. Especially where fracking is used you often get a disturbingly large plume of unhealthy air and groundwater. But just the "soot zone" (now hopefully metaphorical rather than literal) around and downwind of generators surprises many people by its size and impact.
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Around Palm Springs CA there are a lot of turbines. They do dominate the landscape but then again so does the interstate and all the buildings.
@Asbestos @moz I find it interesting that people are reacting to my photo by getting weirdly defensive about wind farms.
@mattblaze@federate.social It's often challenging to distinguish dogwhistling from "just making a comment".
I was reacting to the commentary more than the photo. And from Australia, where we get a lot of "look at this ghastly blight" discussion of wind farms. Hence the reminder that visual pollution might be annoying but air pollution kills and maims.
I suspect your mental context was "this is a cool photo" but "conquering the landscape" isn't a positive or even neutral framing.
@moz@fosstodon.org I wish you luck in your future efforts to save yourself from the embarrassment of making completely unwarranted assumptions.
@mattblaze@federate.social I obviously misunderstood your comment as a request for explanation. I didn't mean to upset you. I'm sorry for doing that..
@moz@fosstodon.org Yeah, I had no idea that fossil fuels polluted.