100-year-old trees to be cut down for solar farm
A large number of 100 year-old Joshua trees in the California desert will be cleared to make way for a large solar farm
The 2,300-acre solar project is going up near near Boron, in Southern California, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The area of Kern County from which the project is slated has a poverty rate twice that of the state’s average.
The solar farm will generate intermittent power for 180,000 homes in wealthier coastal neighborhoods.
Besides the destruction of old trees, the residents living near the project say county and state officials who approved the project have ignored their other concerns about construction dust and impacts to endangered desert tortoises.
According to the Times, the controversy highlights “tradeoffs” between reducing carbon dioxide emissions in electricity generation and the land-intensive environmental impacts of the wind and solar industry.
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VOWG
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Another waste of resources. Wind turbines cannot be built without coal, oil and gas. They are not “green” and they are not efficient and should immediately be stopped.
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VOWG
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CO2 is not a problem. Those who think it is should tie a plastic bag snuggly over their heads until their CO2 output is zero.
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Howdy
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Joshua trees are featured in “planet of the Humans” video, falling to the same fate.
Anybody who thinks killing the planet, to save the planet, is sensible, should be certified insane.
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S.C.
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Agreed. I was just about to say that climate cultists are quite literally killing off entire ecosystems to “preserve the environment.” It is utter insanity, which, btw, is the hallmark of every recent CIA psi op. Hmmm…
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