Wind energy is often presented as a particularly environmentally friendly and climate-friendly form of energy.
In a fact sheet on the carbon footprint of wind turbines, the "Free Landscape Switzerland" association writes:
"If you take into account the poor ecological conditions of their production, construction and recycling, the
installation of wind turbines is harmful to the climate."
According to "Freie Landschaft Schweiz", the rotor blades in particular cause major problems during recycling.
Special thermal plants are needed to recycle the fiber composites they contain.
Nevertheless, the construction of wind turbines is being driven forward in Switzerland.
Of the more than 1,000 planned wind turbines, many are to be erected in the middle of the forest or on the edge of the forest.
There is now resistance to this in the form of two popular initiatives:
The Forest Protection Initiative demands that wind turbines be built outside forests and wooded pastures.
The aim of the community protection initiative is to ensure that every wind power project is put
to a vote by the citizens affected by the plant.
This is actually a matter of course, considering the many other negative effects of wind
turbines on people, animals and the environment.
The infrasound and shadows caused by wind turbines can lead to a variety of health problems such as concentration
disorders, nervousness, headaches and sleep disorders.
Kla.TV reported on the harmful effects of wind turbines in programs such as "Worse than just hot air - The wind
turbine file" and "Toxic wind turbines as climate savers?!"
Visualize some excerpts from it:
"The use of wind energy is being promoted to counteract the climate change allegedly caused by CO₂.
The drying out of the soil in particular is presented to us in striking and apocalyptic
images as a consequence of climate change.
However, current studies show that wind turbines in particular can lead to drought."
"Electricity from wind power is either available in abundance and the price on the electricity exchange is close to
zero or the wind blows too little and the electricity has to be bought from abroad at a high price.
This drives up the price of electricity and thus the price of the goods produced.
In the long term, companies could not survive in such an environment.
They either stop producing altogether or emigrate.
What remains is a population with a high unemployment rate that is no longer able to make a living due to high energy costs."
The currently much-discussed "PFAS" also pose a risk:
"And then we have the special feature of the rotor blades.
The rotor blades therefore consist of GRP-GFC mix materials with epoxy resin, including bisphenol A and PFAS permanent chemicals.
In other words, a highly toxic material, which not only leads to considerable abrasion during operation of the
turbines, which is also undisputed by the wind industry itself.
There are around 1,500 places in Germany that are contaminated with these PFAS, where in some cases the
groundwater can no longer be drunk or the water has to be filtered before it can be spread on the fields.
That is highly dangerous."
But why is it still being promoted and who is interested in it?
A plausible answer to this question could be the following:
'You will own nothing and be happy'
a sentence that comes from a 2016 World Economic Forum (WEF) video and summarizes an essay by Danish politician Ida Auken.
Ida Auken is part of the WEF's Young Global Leaders program.
That would be ideal for the WEF and its backers.
Everything that someone needs is received as a service.
On the one hand, this service would be good business, and on the other, everyone would become a completely transparent citizen.
Existing structures in the economy and population would first have to be dismantled and a plan would be needed
to achieve this without resistance from the population."
In order for the Swiss electorate to be able to vote on the above initiatives, 100,000
valid signatures are required by July 30, 2025.
At present, just under 60,000 signatures have been collected.
Committed support is therefore still needed from Swiss citizens who are committed to these issues.
The committee asks that the signature forms be returned by the end of June 2025 so that there is
still enough time to have the signatures notarized.