"Renewable" energy can't renew the environment it's chewing up
Climate NGOs promoting "renewables" love to post pictures of industrial wind & solar gobbling up America's non-renewable landscapes.
Some rich men came and raped the land. Nobody caught ‘em.
— The Last Resort (The Eagles)
The richest American environmental nonprofits are strong promoters of weather-dependent energy. Nearly all of their webpages have images of wind turbines and solar panels.
Visual Clutter
For example, the Natural Resources Defense Council’s webpage for renewable energy shows solar panels covering once-green mountaintops.
The caption reads:
Accelerating its shift to a new clean energy system will help China to ensure that it can peak its fossil fuel use and carbon emissions as early and as low as possible. Here, a mountaintop solar power plant in China’s Nanping City.
Credit: Natural Resources Defense Council.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management appears to be promoting the polluting of mountain views with supposedly green energy. Multiple pages on bureau’s website for siting wind energy on public lands show the same photo of dozens of wind turbines blocking the view of snow-covered mountains.
Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
“Renewables are booming” proclaims a November 2024 headline on the Sierra Club website, right above a picture of a sunset blocked by wind turbines.
Credit: Sierra Club.
The page for “Renewable Energy” from the Union of Concerned Scientists boasts of “little or no pollution” and then provides a photo of wind turbines filling a mountain pass.
Credit: Union of Concerned Scientists.
The Natural Resources Defense Council website promotes a photo of dozens of wind turbines filling the scenery underneath a snow-capped mountain. The caption reads: “Limiting dirty fossil fuel production and transitioning to clean energy, like wind and solar, are critical in building a livable future.”
Credit: Natural Resources Defense Council.
Inherent Hypocrisy
Though unintentional, this cheerleading is an honest portrayal of two serious and hypocritical problems inherent in weather-dependent energy systems . . .
To find out what these hypocrisies are, please see the rest of this report at the Capital Research Center (no paywall, no sign up)…Renewable Energy . . . or Maybe Not