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hunter

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1. The sanctuary might have been larger if not for the proposed wind farm.
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 11:40 AM
Oct 2024
The designated site is smaller than the originally proposed sanctuary, which encompassed about 7,000 square miles—roughly six times the size of Yosemite National Park. For example, the waters off Morro Bay, north of San Luis Obispo, were not included in the sanctuary despite being in the proposal because of plans to build an offshore wind farm there.


This makes me angry.

We're not going to save the world by trashing it with useless wind and solar "farms" that will only prolong our dependency on filthy natural gas and thus do nothing in the long run to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses humans dump into earth's atmosphere.

The Chumash people are amazing for having hung onto their culture against all odds. When I was a kid growing up in Southern California, in a community that was 99% white and kept that way by illegal and highly unethical means, it was implied in our history classes that the Chumash were extinct, like dinosaurs. For that reason they could be celebrated because they were politically powerless and irrelevant.

Meanwhile people of Native American ancestry were being pulled over by the cops for Driving While Brown, getting beaten up, etc..

My genocidal Trump supporting MAGA classmates believe the political empowerment of Native American cultures is some kind of demonic resurrection promoted by the Liberal Agenda. In their reality the white people won, winner take all, and their god willed it.

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