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Dorian Gray

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4. The childhood friends of mine
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 06:02 AM
Mar 2023

who lean right are posting and sharing stories on Facebook about this. (We grew up on Jersey Shore.) Like a lot. To the point where I started thinking it is odd that they're sharing so much about this when I'm seeing little about it in the mainstream media.

Then lo and behold: NJ Whale Deaths Have Sparked Right Wing Conspiracy Theories on Facebook https://www.arcamax.com/currentnews/newsheadlines/s-2796991



Of course they have. (There is evidence that at least 40% of the whales had been hit by vessels or fishing nets.) There is also hypotheses that rising temperatures in the oceans may be making the environment uninhabitable.

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So these people prefer mountain top removals over wind power. . Emile Mar 2023 #1
As typical Republicans they only care what impacts their tiny minds. NIMBY (Not in my backyard) TheBlackAdder Mar 2023 #2
Neither is what's on their minds tirebiter Mar 2023 #18
Further studies on wind farms or further studies on flying whales? nt Buns_of_Fire Mar 2023 #3
The fossil fuel industry pushes this misinformation to stop Emile Mar 2023 #5
The coal industry rejects these. The natural gas industry does not. hunter Mar 2023 #9
Nuclear factories and plants are easy targets for terrorists. Emile Mar 2023 #10
If we don't quit fossil fuels earth's natural environment and our civilization are toast. hunter Mar 2023 #11
Totally agree, but nuclear is not the answer. Emile Mar 2023 #12
What is the answer? hunter Mar 2023 #16
Wrong - nuclear reactors have become very expensive to make & maintain womanofthehills Mar 2023 #15
The rich fossil fuel industry guys are the guys making the wind farms womanofthehills Mar 2023 #13
Around here it was the coal industry pushing the misinformation. Emile Mar 2023 #14
The childhood friends of mine Dorian Gray Mar 2023 #4
They'll never even catch up to the number of birds and animals killed by the Exxon Valdez spill Walleye Mar 2023 #6
i live a few miles from a beautiful wind farm and no dead whales here! samnsara Mar 2023 #7
I have a wind farm two miles north of my house. My r/w neighbor hates them Emile Mar 2023 #8
Aside from fossil fuels, agriculture is another wretched thing humans do. hunter Mar 2023 #17
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