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Ashley Fitzgerald
@RizomaSchool
Met a super highly educated guy the other day at a party who said he was an environmental lawyer and I asked him what issues he works on and he said solar farms in the central valley of CA and I was like oh yeah obviously against that right and he was like no, for
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Ashley Fitzgerald
@RizomaSchool
First of all, actual deserts Second of all, the built environment Third, is your vision that all "fallow" landscapes of the entire world get covered in energy creating products for humans!?? Like is that your actual vision!?
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Ashley Fitzgerald
@RizomaSchool
Whenever I asked the guy about siting it other places he just kept saying "well it's just too cheap to do it there so that's why we are doing it there" as if the main goal of an environmentalist should be dictated by what is "cheap"
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Ashley Fitzgerald
@RizomaSchool
liberal environmentalism is just technocratic fossil fuel logic but "green" I am once again tapping the sign
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Ashley Fitzgerald
@RizomaSchool
there are plenty of ways to be extremely comfortable with very low energy costs high-tech-utopianism is a brain worm for NPCs!
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Bruce Ross
@530BruceRoss
Regrettably, big parts of the Central Valley of California have had the groundwater extracted to the point where the laws of physics, never mind the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, will lead to substantial fallowing. There is not enough water. It is very sunny, though.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
@RizomaSchool
That was his counterargument and I kind of get it, but id like to see sole regreening of the desert rather than the industrialization of it
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Rich Calhoun
@richcalhoun
If you’re interested, there is a ton of research showing that solar panels reduce evapotranspiration and increase nutrient content in crops. As climate change continues to strain our ability to manage water and grow food, agrivoltaics will be critical.
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Tenobrus
@tenobrus
how... why would you possibly be against that?? what the fuck are you talking about dawg???
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@jik_wtf
damn, first you come for nuclear, the you came for wind, and now solar too?
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Blessed with the 'tism
@blessedtism
Wouldn't someone have to be kind of a midwit at best to work against it? I guess lawyers are known for being unethical but it seems a bit uncharitable to assume that about someone you've just met.
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Matthew Lawrence
@m4ttl4w1
Have you not seen the tremendous harm we put on the Central Valley via massive amounts of industrialized agriculture and huge wastes of water? Same goes for the oil and natural gas production in this state.
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Hyre
@hyrevayn
Helping to build solar farms is one of the best things anyone could be doing to contribute to human civilization. Energy is everything you want and could ever imagine. Energy is everything and we should build as much of it as possible. Great for him. He’s right and you are wrong.
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Mountain Blue
@MountainBlue__
Every environmental issue is downstream of climate change. Climate change will affect every ecosystem on the planet, as well as virtually every human. Maximizing solar energy usage is morally correct. If we can use land already modified by human activity, even better.
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@eva_khoury_
Is the tradeoff for the impact on the land worse than the renewable energy? And is there another way of implementing them that would make the impact worse? I'm not familiar with all the issues here
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@ValleyMadeGabe
Small scale solar farms are popping up all over the valley as farmers install them to power pumps on-site. Lessen the strain on the grid, easy work for my crew. Thumbs up all around.
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