The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
Remember Nancy’s pork barrel funds to save a mouse but now who cares kill and destroy it all for that insane 90% cut in carbon emissions on a carbon based planet ,LOL
Who gets to control the “Climate mitigation fund”?
What a scam.
“Solar farm”. Pure crap. Nothing is grown nothing is raised, quite the opposite. Acres and acres of valuable farmland waisted, trees cut down, and the electricity goes into the grid, does nothing for the local population. They are not farms.
Do they NEVER perform a mass-balance calculation for justification?
Greenery captures CO2 and converts it to life-essential materials.
Over the life time of the solar panels, do they avoid the generation of CO2 (per kW.hr) in equal or greater proportions to the CO2 capture-and-convert amount of the greenery.
Then, calculate the CO2 impact of the greenery BEYOND that solar panel lifetime because there would be no added cost of replacement.
Now, as a cynical wag I ask, “If you buried the spent solar panels in place, how long would it take for them to be converted to fuel [like coal or even peat].
Ping to the fascists ending of Joshua Trees. LOL.
At least the trees will die knowing their sacrifice was for a good cause. So they have that going for them, which is nice.
Climate change is an opportunity for power, control and money. Who can pass that up?
50 years ago I stopped by a chimney in the middle of nowhere on the way to Las Vegas.
There was a professor there that told me this was the spot where the communists had a commune in the 1930s.
The communist had cut down all the Joshua trees.
I was stationed at 29 Palms California in the 70’s.
Joshua Trees were the only thing growing basically for a hundred miles.
I think it was Milton Friedman that said, “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there would be a shortage of sand.”
Bttt
“Solar farm” = making the grid dependent on solar = about the dumbest thing ever unless it’s the intent to mess up something that works well.
Maybe add a few wind turbines to the project to chop up California condors and bald eagles. It would seem these solar and wind farms are exempted from any concerns about threatening endangered flora or fauna that would stymie the development of any other projects.
Where are the tree-huggers?
It’s (D)ifferent when they do it.