By Sherri Lange – December 15, 2022
“Combating opposition to the industrial wind with Conspiracy Theory is ignorant, immature, and even humorous if the authors don’t take the subject seriously. Opponents of industrial wind will not fall prey to claims to be paranoid or socially ‘out of place’. They are dedicated, well researched, well prepared and ready to go all the way. There to be reason to fight for your own landscape, health, community and wildlife.”
“Conspiracy theory” is a phrase that is being thrown around a lot these days, often when people are unable to refute deep and real concerns about realities that are increasingly being exposed on so many levels. . Consider the origins of COVID, Vaccines, President Donald Trump, to name a few. (Those on both sides of the argument called each other “prey of the conspiracy.”)
What one did not expect was that opposition to industrial wind would be called upon because of the Conspiracy. It’s an eccentric connection that authors/profs. Kai Sassenberg, Matthew Hornsey, and Kevin Winter for Anticipate and defuse the role of conspiracy beliefs in shaping opposition to wind farms recently published in natural energy.
The basic assumption is that wind turbine opponents are nervous, possibly paranoid, and have “low coping skills” if they envision harm to their communities. In addition, ungrateful people do not trust the city government and superiors.
One can agree with skepticism. But it is insulting people, wildlife, and pristine lands and waters that are being damaged—and all as unnecessary as the industrial wind turbines themselves. To mention that worldwide industry is in scandal seems controversial. The title and field of study of professors from Australia and Germany can be smeared. “Tricky” and definitely deaf.
Professor HornseyHis biography (see Appendix below) combines his interests with “distrust and defenses against climate change, vaccinations, evolution, etc.” (The word “etc” seems to include an objection to industrial wind.)
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PRICE ONE Australian and German researchers have found a moderate to large association between people who believe in conspiracy theories and reject wind farms. They found that providing more information to these people also increased their likelihood of supporting wind energy, but only if it was not presented as an argument. Given the urgent need for wind energy production to reach zero targets, precautions are more likely to prevent these people from voicing objections, the team said. them than just intervening later with an information dump.
Comment: The way to fix it is to start from the assumption in favor of wind, against such mineral energy. Why should citizen-by-taxpayer and citizen-by-taxpayer subsidize wind? Why do they have to put up with the well-known annoyances of industrial wind turbines – noise, flicker, etc. – when huge machines are not needed in the first place? Why should secondary transmissions be exempted? A free market, anyone?
Citation TWO Achieving net-zero targets will require a drastic increase in wind energy production, but efforts to build wind farms may face stiff local resistance. Here, inspired by work related to vaccination, we examine whether opposition to wind farms is linked to the worldview that conspiracies are pervasive (‘negative psychology’). plot’). In eight pre-registered studies (total N = 4,170), we found a moderate to large relationship between various indicators of conspiracy beliefs and wind farm opposition. Indeed, the relationship between wind farm opposition and conspiracy beliefs is several times greater than its relationship to age, gender, education, and political orientation. Providing information enhances support, even among those with a high conspiracy mentality. However, disinformation was less effective when it was presented in the form of a debate (i.e., included negative arguments) and between participants who supported specific conspiracy theories about certain topics. wind farms. The data therefore suggest that preventive measures are more realistic than informational interventions to limit the potential negative effects of conspiracy beliefs.
Comment: What about focusing on the ones closest to the wind turbines? Any authors want to camp under the turbine for a few days and report back? And it’s fair to any citizen who doesn’t want government energy plans and wind subsidies to be politically correct, economically incorrect. Is it a ‘conspiracy’?
SALE PRICE For many countries, achieving zero targets will require an extraordinary boost of wind energy. For example, when Princeton University modeled the path to net zero emissions in the United States based entirely on renewable energy, they calculated that it would require more than 1 million square kilometers of land, roughly the same area. of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Louisiana combinedfirst. In Germany, the current government has agreed to designate 2% of the country’s landscape for the construction of wind farms2. The scale of escalation indicates a fundamental shift in people’s exposure to—and relationships with—wind farms in the future. (Our Note: Unreasonable scale of escalation will never produce a radical change in the public’s opposition. The impact would be the opposite of what was hoped for.)
Comment: Thank you for including these facts. And you have rejected your premise that wind is the necessary savior. Outsourcing landscaping for unreliable, expensive, unnecessary wind power is an environmental imperative.
Robert Bryce encourages us to examine this renewable expansion in more depth.
The issue of scale is equally obvious when it comes to wind. In fact, the scale issues of wind power are even more thorny because wind power requires a lot of land.
Consider the extent of energy expansion if the wind energy sector provides 450 terawatt-hours per year of increased electricity demand.
The energy density of wind energy is about two watts per square meter or about five megawatts per square mile. That means that by the end of 2011, the United States had covered an area of land approximately 9,400 square miles with wind turbines, an area only slightly smaller than that the state of Maryland. Thus, just to keep up with the growth in global electricity demand using only wind power, the global wind industry would need to cover a land area of approximately 35,000 square miles — about the size of Indiana. — by wind turbines. And it will have to do so every year.
That metric is still elusive, so let me put it another way: to keep pace with global electricity use growth, the wind industry would have to cover 96 square miles per day, in turbines- wind turbine. It was an area the size of four Manhattan.
Afterward, natural energy The article mentions Net Zero: a Net Zero’s reality check, showed the concept of an unattainable pie in the sky, which captured the political imagination and castrated or disfigured energy policies around the world. The problem with SOME conspiracy “theories” is that they deeply challenge the potential disinformation, many of which are falsely promoted/supported by the Government in the media. Misrepresentation of galaxy style. This is really production anxiety.
PRICE FOUR FOUR Current research shows that people are abstractly positive about wind energy, but when it comes to actually setting up wind farms in local communities, there is considerable opposition, to the point where many Proposal has been rejected.3. In some cases, outcry has been amplified by organized disinformation campaigns (e.g. about negative health consequences of wind farms).4,5. These groups of resistance could be an early warning sign of what other countries may soon experience as wind farms become a more visible and prominent part of people’s living experience. Just as countries will need to massively increase investment in wind farms to meet their renewable energy targets, the scientific community will need to strengthen its ability to predict (and mitigate) the drivers of energy loss. to wind farm resistance.
Comment: The abstract support of wind awaits a fair and public presentation on the problems of wind for prices, taxes and landscape. And especially for local residents to the turbines.
We hear less and less about NIMBY argument. The objection is firmly grounded in reality and increasingly clear and fearless. And increasingly successful.
Inference
Countering industrial wind opposition with Conspiracy Theory is ignorant, immature, and even humorous if the authors don’t take the subject seriously. Opponents of industrial wind will not fall prey to claims to be paranoid or socially ‘out of place’. They are dedicated, well researched, well prepared and ready to go all the way. There to be reason to fight for yourself Health, land, community and wild animals.”
Professor Hornsey asks: “Why do people resist messages that seem reasonable?” Flip the script; Hornsey should understand the fundamental energy issues before changing and downplaying wind energy’s on-site victims. You should ask questions wind industry to see who is challenging reality and put PR above real concerns and problems.
appendix
Professor Hornsey write on his bio:
Since graduating in 1999, I have published more than 130 papers and in 2018 I was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. One issue that I have considered throughout my career is: “Why do people resist messages that seem reasonable?” I focused on the psychology of how feelings of mistrust and intimidation can cause people to reject messages. These insights are then translated into concrete and actionable strategies to overcome defensiveness. Specific examples include ARC-funded research on (1) why people accept or resist scientific messages about climate change, vaccinations, evolution, etc., (2) how people react to conciliatory gestures from offending groups (especially apologies) and (3) what drives defensiveness in the face of group criticism and recommendations for change.
This professional position required us to investigate further about Hornsey to uncover articles such as Hornsey, MJ, Harris, EA & Fielding, KS The relationship between conspiracy beliefs, conservatism, and climate skepticism across countries. Natural Climbing. Change 8, 614–620 (2018). Consider this quote:
“Another ideology associated with climate skepticism is conspiracy theory, defined as an underlying worldview or tendency to view events and circumstances as the product of conspiracies.twelfth,13. There are a number of conspiracy theories about climate science, the most prominent of which is that it is a hoax perpetrated by scientists who see it as an opportunity to influence, secure funding or implement Executing a Green/Marxist Agenda13,14,15.”
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