Cutting Joshua Trees

[Eddi]

Debatable with your aversion to green energy near you because it vaguely smells of capitalism and is an "eyesore".

How is trashing a nature reserve "Green energy"?????

I'm minded of the song Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
(Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)

Yay! Let's destroy the natural environment for green energy! Totally consistent and rational!

It's totally deranged

Speculation that it is purely financially motivated.

It's a private company that is in business to turn a profit, they have probably realised their oil won't last forever so want to diversify

It is abusing the goodwill of the naive and feeble minded, that is their strategy

They take us for fools

Yes, the Earth is Many, and humans few. That takes precedence.

And the Yorkshire countryside isn't a part of Earth????

 

[The Hammer]

How is trashing a nature reserve "Green energy"?????

I'm minded of the song Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
(Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)

Yay! Let's destroy the natural environment for green energy! Totally consistent and rational!

Is that what I suggested? Or did I suggest a balanced approach? Recognizing that there has to be give and take from both sides. Both the energy sector, and communities.

they have probably realised their oil won't last forever so want to diversify

Smart move.

It is abusing the goodwill of the naive and feeble minded, that is their strategy

You're pointing a lot of negativity without basis.

And the Yorkshire countryside isn't a part of Earth????

You're missing my point.











I'm done with this conversation.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

It is abusing the goodwill of the naive and feeble minded, that is their strategy

^ so manic ... so aggrieved ...

 

[Revoltingest]

So what do you think of cutting down thousands of Joshua trees for a solar farm?

Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert

A solar energy company will soon begin clearing thousands of protected Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert, including many thought to be a century old.

www.latimes.com

One must balance the costs of solar (financial, tree loss)
vs the benefits (burning less fossil fuel). I'm OK with doing
it outside of Joshua Tree National Park.
Could there be more analysis than is shown in the article?
It would be useful to know more.