It's just so weird to get so upset about solar that you have tshirts and signs made to protest. Even if I don't agree with it, I can at least understand the angle most protestors are coming from. But this? What's to get so mad about solar?
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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It doesn't seem to be what's happening here, but I've seen wooded areas clear cut for large scale solar farms before. That's completely missing the point of green energy IMO and I can see why some would oppose it.
Here in Massachusetts they’ve installed panels in all sorts of otherwise unusable space, including:
- capped garbage dumps & transfer stations
- Along the sides of highways
- inside highway clover leafs
"We ruined this place fair and square, and by God we're not about to fix it now."
-Mississippi
And yet they are worried about declining birth rates when there was just another study proving the link between air pollution and male infertility.