AS LANCE OLSEN NOTES, THE RENEWABLE ENERGY REVOLUTION IS JUST BEGINNING BUT SCALING IT ALSO REQUIRES MASSIVE EARTHMOVING
A wind farm in the West. Photo courtesy Joshua Winchell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Can we mine our way out of our climate troubles and challenges to long-term resource sustainability on a planet with growing numbers of humans and rising demand for raw material consumption?
The most penetrating criticism I’ve seen of renewable energy—such as wind, solar, hydropower, hydrogen and long-life battery technology— is that it’s being promoted at massive scale to reassure us that we can go on as before, with little if any change of lifestyle, no move beyond our comfort zones. That’s a comforting view, one that we’d all love to be true. And yet, it raises a big and uncomfortable question. Can we mine, baby, mine, to ensure no reduction of living standards, no uncomfortable change…
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Exposing the Big Game 
“The most penetrating criticism I’ve seen of renewable energy—such as wind, solar, hydropower, hydrogen and long-life battery technology— is that it’s being promoted at massive scale to reassure us that we can go on as before, with little if any change of lifestyle, no move beyond our comfort zones.”
Exactly!!!! Or even increase our usage, as the population grows. But massive scale anything is going to do harm to other living things.
This is why I was disturbed by AOC’s comment about the Green New Deal ‘we must save ourselves’. We’re not the only ones who need saving. SSDD
Great comment! There are plans to destroy remaining pristine, undisturbed areas for more of this industrial generation under the guise of “green” or “sustainable.” Nothing we humans do is ever really very good for the planet, except when we die.
…and even then, humans rob mother nature of whatever nutrients their bodies might offer.