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December 20, 2022
Black Man Run Over By Cop After He Called 911 For Gunshot Wound
December 18, 2022
Racial Profiling Cops Arrest The WRONG Person
December 15, 2022
Judge Who Didn't Disclose Conflict Won't Be Reversed on Appeal
December 15, 2022
Kremlin: Patriot Missiles Arriving in Ukraine Will Be a Prime Target for Russian Airstrikes
December 12, 2022
The Moon Landing Was Faked, and Wind Farms Are Bad
"In Germany, opposition to wind farms correlated with conspiratorial thinking."Germany ranks third in the world for installed wind power capacity. In 2020, almost a quarter of the countrys energy came from wind, and the government has pledged to double that by 2030, designating 2 percent of Germanys landmass to become wind farms.
Switching away from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources like wind is essential if we want to try to mitigate some of the worst consequences of the climate change weve started, but this switch is extraordinarily difficult for many reasons. Watching how this switch plays out in early adopters of wind power like Germany may help inform how the rest of us decarbonize.
People are generally keen on wind power in the abstract, but a huge NIMBY (not in my backyard) factor comes into play when wind farms have to actually get built in communities. Researchers in Germany wondered what it was, exactly, that made people vote against local wind farms. They found that a tendency toward conspiratorial thinking helped explain a lot of the resistance.
December 12, 2022
How One Cop Cost His Town $7,000,000 And Got ARRESTED
December 9, 2022
SC Cop Sued For Smashing Peaceful Woman's Face
December 9, 2022
How Does This Cop Keep His Job? (Another) Angry WV Officer
December 6, 2022
Cops Forcefully Enter Black Family's Home WITHOUT A Warrant
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