Is The World Getting Better Or Worse?

Vertical wind turbines would greatly reduce the relatively small share of bird deaths.As for those huge mirror arrays to focus sun light on the top of a tower that fries those birds, I hate those - it's more of the "bigger is better" fallacy incorporate thinking. They just want a way to bill you for sunlight when it's free.I saw that more birds deaths come from oil pits than windmills, but the google results are not well-vetted on everything. My first guess was pesticides, which not only directly poison them but also their food chain (think bees pollinating plants that provide a source of seeds for the seed-eating bird species). But while much bigger than renewable energies, pesticides and the whole fossil fuel energies were well behind windows and cats.Around here our Animal Control Officer warns us that Coyotes and other predators hunt your outdoor cats and to bring them inside - so keep them inside for both reasons!

AZPaul writes: But couldn't the humans gently tug it out of the way by orbit disturbances from large asteroids? Make it a museum? Then after the sun finishes and shrinks back to a small dwarf, tug it back?

Thugpreacha asks: Probably starting too high for your income. See Elizabeth Warrens Wealth Tax or Bernie's.If you make 50 millions, you don't have any sympathy from me.Edited by xongsmith, : typo

AZPaul writes: I'd like to see these in a 2017 per capita format. Wow, India would shine!!!Here is some of it:

1		China	                            1388232693	10877.218	7.8352988334
2		India	                            1342512706	 2454.774	1.8284921915
3		United States of America             326474013	 5107.393	15.644102736
9		Russian Federation	             143375006	 1764.866	12.3094397639
11		Japan                                126045211	 1320.776	10.4785893055

So you can see that the worst per capita is the USA, followed by Russia and then Japan,and then China. India is last here. relatively.To get the Biggest Bang For The Buck in planning, you target the most egregious offenders first.Edited by xongsmith, : whoops, cloned formula was wrong for India

Faith asks: False!The USA leads on a per capita basis. Russia is 2nd on a per capita basis. China is 4th on a per capita basis and is doing things to begin to take the lead in amelioration. (See Message 430.)Perhaps you missed the days when the US used lead the world in things by example?Why focus? Half is better than none at all.Edited by xongsmith, : Add link to Msg 430 data.