Yeah isn't it weird how somehow the "landscape" they're so worried about messing up with wind turbines or solar panels... Is never impacted by things like this?

Literally have never heard a conservative complain about strip mining even though it's insanely ugly and the closest we can come to actually raping the planet.

Love me a meme with variable text color to maintain contrast against a changing background.

That mine makes some guy hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The wind turbine cuts into the profits of the guy who sells fossil fuels (and is likely to be the same guy).

That's why theres a weird media push to discredit and downplay wind power

There's a wind turbine right next to my childhood home. I grew up thinking it was probably the most beautiful thing in the neighborhood. It was truly stunning to younger me.

But does the mine kill birds??? /s

Found the Albertan. Smith put an effective moratorium on renewable projects within 35 km of a provincial park, citing 'obscuring scenic vistas'.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-renewables-pause-moratorium-aeso-foip-1.7196943

Oh wait, it was just giant dick swing from the government, entirely not based on what anyone wanted.

I can reclaim her ;)

My impression is that the construction of wind turbines is opposed only in the sorts of place where no one would even consider strip mining - e.g. places where wealthy people live. Aesthetic sensibility is a luxury.

Edit: I'm not saying this to imply that people are wrong to develop aesthetic sensibility once they can afford to. I'm not so wealthy that I can afford to do anything about, say, a building being built that ruins my view, but as a member of the middle class I can participate in collective opposition to something like a nearby strip mine, whereas I wouldn't if I were so poor that I would welcome working as a miner.

At first I thought this image was trying to say that wind turbines require too much mining

It's because mines start as small holes and a few years later it has crept several square kilometers and a Bagger 288 is sitting inside.