What do you call it when they chop down North Carolina forests, ship the wood on a diesel powered barge to Europe, then burn it in a power plant? “Green Energy”https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article238395173.html …
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They’re also tearing down North Carolina Longleaf Pine forests (currently reduced to 1% of their historical range) to put in solar panels made in China from hydrocarbon fueled rare earth mineral strip mining and calling that “green energy” too.
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Economically outgrowing the real one. What is the real environmental movement? Honestly asking.
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Preserving species and ecosystems though conservation of land and aquatic habitat and prevention of pollution. Essentially, protecting the biodiversity of living things as the primary goal, and avoiding tricks that improve one metric at greater expense to the overall goal.
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Renewable can be a part of being green, but renewable <> green. Yours is an example of a renewable energy source that's not green. Your second statement is dangerously false - planting trees won't save us if we continue producing greenhouse gasses at the current rate.
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But Tim, "using whatever energy source is cheapest" means using fossil fuels, which are the exact problem we're trying to avoid here...
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That's so true. In France, many stupid people including ministers think and say that nuclear energy contributes to the global warming, so these fools want to stop the nuclear... So in fact they are trying to increase the global warming...
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I can only agree. I think Sweden, my home country, is a prime example of this. People with real scientific education and knowledge are drowned out by media-savy loudmouths with no real solutions. I guess the appeal of an "simple fix" for a complex problem is just to tempting...
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