alt Hacker Newsdoes this renewable policy of wind farms etc also extend to the rain forest being cut down for balsawood? or the landfilles the massive chunks of fiberglass coated wings then get put into?
I guess we need a new planet when we're done filling it with junk and have depleted all the rain forest etc
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kkkqkqkqkqlqlql • yesterday at 8:07 PM
Ah yes, the Landman argument.
lovich • yesterday at 6:53 PM
What is the balsawood comment in reference to? I’ve never heard that mentioned in conversation around renewables but it’s not my area of expertise.
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skywhopper • yesterday at 7:39 PM
Is your point that coal mining, transport, and usage have no negative externalities?
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Like fossil fuels are somehow ecologically clean and don't cause massive deforestation themselves? Sure, renewables aren't a silver bullet and there's a real conversation to be had about proper disposal of turbine blades and PV cells, but it's pretty convenient how that same scrutiny never seems to get applied to fossil fuels.