Saving the Planet from the Ravages of Climate Change Will Not Be Easy

At left is an ad whose copy reads: In addition to the damage to local communities, solar “farms” can cause deforestation, destruction of wildlife habitats and disruption of ecosystems.

Think for a moment of the places you’ve seen where utility-scale solar PV has been deployed.  Do they look anything like a place that poor Bambi here might live?

As anyone with any sense at all would guess, the permitting process for solar farms is incredibly rigorous in terms of environmental consequences.

But don’t think for a minute that the fossil fuel industry isn’t going to trick you into preventing the fall of their enterprise.