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Cutting forests for solar energy ‘misses the plot’ on climate action
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this post was submitted on 25 May 2024
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There is SO much empty ass space in the south west of the US, why the fuck would you go out of your way to deforest an area? Stop proposing solar in areas that don't get as much sun as the south west, this is political nonsense bullshit. Put pressure on Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado to install more solar. California already has the most solar of any state by a huge margin.
There's an industry in cutting down forests in the southeast US to create wood pellets, which are then shipped to Europe and burned as "green"
That hurts my brain. We made it to the fucking moon, figured out nuclear power, and yet we have people doing that shit? Reality is an amazing inequitable shit show.
I know people who argue that burning wood pellets is grean because it's marketed as "renewable". It's difficult to convince them that the wood their burning is not part of a renewable cycle and neither is it just wood scraps that would be there anyways. Same as growing "biofuel" for consumer cars. It's just not a good use of the limited resources we have