Statistics just  infuriate you don't they? Science, rational investigation, reason itself, none of it really sinks in. This thing about wind turbines and birds is an old enough story to qualify as an urban legend or something. 

Domestic cat owners--like many "pet" owners--have abdicated their ethical responsibility on a mind blowing scale, such a large scale that it changes worldwide ecosystems . . . . Human activity has become a geological force,  but people prefer to worry that statistically insignificant local impacts of alternative energy are too deadly to countenance? 

Freud had a word for stuff like that. What is that? Projection? Denial? Substitution? I'm signing off . . .