Killing Panthers and Eagles Too #5

As if it wasn't enough that the fragile federal Fish and Wildlife wasn't being pushed around by big campaign finance donors to take land from the endangered Florida panthers, it is now out that they're killing eagles, bats, and other birds including the raptors at the request of the people putting in wind turbines. Wind turbines are not turning out to be utopia. Great Britain, which has the best wind in Europe, is struggling to get wind turbines to provide 15% of the electricity needed. Sometimes, wind farms produce only enough energy to bring a couple of kettles of tea to a boil. Very quaint, but is it a fool's errand?
    Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that US Fish and Wildlife Disservices wants to extend a kill permit from five years to thirty years for wind turbines. This permit will allow wind turbines to kill legally kill 4,200 bald eagles (our national bird; America-haters must be ecstatic!) 888,000 bats, and 573,000 other kinds of birds, including the raptors.
    On the other hand, just to make themselves look almost criminally small, Federal Fish and Wildlife Disservices really whomped down on fossil fuel producers. They had the Justice Department file criminal charges against three oil companies for killing - get this now!- a horrible total of six ducks and one grebe. How do these guys and gals look at themselves in the mirror or look at their children in the face? Why do we allow their bosses to make them such malevolent tools? Why do we allow the puppeticians to make the bosses such tools? Why do we allow puppeticians to accept money from private donors when we know this prostitutes the politicians to the private donors? I agree with Bernie Sanders that this must stop. But don't think Denmarkian styled socialists can't be killers in America. Sincere Bernie is already alluding to the Democratic Convention not being "gentle." This reminds me of Maximilian Robespierre warning that you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. Wasn't he cute with his reframing? Robespierre's Reign of Terror while he served on the Committee of (No) Public Safety killed 30 to 50 thousand French citizens, many of them without even a perfunctory trial by Madame Defarge! He should have been made to eat the omelet.
    To return to the birds. it is not reasurring to read that national birds stewards are writing that Audubon says global warming is going to kill 300 species of birds anyway so let the wind mills beat them to death now. A little superficial there, Stewards.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary