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Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert (ca.news.yahoo.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://jorts.horse/users/fathermcgruder/statuses/112563861339745778

Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/solar-project-destroy-thousands-joshua-100000768.html

It's crazy to me that a destructive photovoltaic solar project like this one is considered reasonable, but a new nuclear power plant within or adjacent to a city is beyond the pale.

@usa

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Saving the environment by killing trees. Good lord!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is why new versions of net metering is a bad idea

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How? What are the differences between the new and old versions of net metering in California that are affecting this situation?

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Reads like NIMBY propaganda. "Oh no muh construction dust." Bitch you live in a desert....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There's more to NIMBYism than saying "not in my back yard" in opposition to any development for any reason. A position isn't meaningfully NIMBY unless it is in opposition to an arguably good development for bad reasons. For example, it is NIMBYism to oppose the construction of affordable housing because you don't want to attract poor minorities to your neighborhood. In this case, a PV solar power plant might arguably be a good thing, but the reasons for opposing it, including the destruction of a rare ecosystem and a specific type of dangerous construction pollution, are more than fair.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

“Construction dust that stirs up the fungus that causes valley fever…”

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Put solar panels in parking lots and on buildings, where the humans live, not in fragile ecosystems. Deserts aren't bereft of life, they are filled with some of the most resilient and charismatic flora and fauna known. Joshua trees and the Mojave have it bad enough already.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Honestly, solar panels above parking lots would rock. Shade for people in the parking lots, and power generation. Yet we don't do it...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What are you on about? Who is we? This is an extraordinarily popular application of solar panels.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I want the term "parking desert" to take hold in place of parking lot. I hate most aspects of automobiles. The amount land we pave over for storage is just tragic and rude.

We should build solar farms over our parking deserts to reduce human footprint.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We are in California. Here parking is starting to add shade with panels on top.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Yes. Joshua trees and desert tortoises live in a desert. That's the point.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Lemmy.ml no thanks, thank you bot for trying

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