The natural world is being destroyed to cater for “green” energy. Nothing demonstrates the stunning hypocrisy of “green” energy ideology more than destroying trees and replacing them with environmentally destructive not-so-greensolar panels to mitigate climate change. Yet this is what is happening in California.
More than 3,500 majestic Joshua trees in California’s Mojave Desert are being shredded onsite to make way for thousands of solar panels.
Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) are not actually trees, but rather a type of succulent that stores water in its trunk and leaves. They are native to the arid Southwestern United States, specifically in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts. They are an important food source for many animals, including birds, insects and mammals.
The plants are slow-growing, adding only 2 to 3 inches each year, but because of this, they live for a long time. One Joshua tree in California is thought to be over 1,000 years old. A more common lifespan is about 150 years.
The sprawling solar project will produce intermittent energy on 2,300 acres of land near the small towns of Boron and Desert Lake. It is not clear whether any of the electricity produced at the solar site will serve some nearby communities. But the project’s developer, California-based Avantus, says contracts have been signed to deliver some of the power to Silicon Valley Clean Energy and Central Coast Community Energy, both are non-profits that provide green energy to homes in more affluent coastal communities, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Even though many of the trees are estimated to be between 100 and 200 years old, government approval of the solar project in 2021 pre-dated a state decision to protect the Joshua tree under the California Endangered Species Act and last year’s enactment by the legislature of the Joshua Tree Conservation Act, which bans unpermitted killing of the trees. As a result, the targeted trees are defenceless.
Now that the fate of the Joshua trees has been sealed, the developer is at pains to justify the Aratina Solar Project by citing its role in combatting manmade climate change.
The lies of the left are so obvious yet people sadly believe them rather than the truth. Here is my list of current Top 10 lies: 1. It's a fetus not a baby 2. There are more than two genders 3. I was born this way 4. Global warming is man made 5. You'll own nothing and be happy 6. Biden won the 2020 election fairly 7. The church has replaced the Jewish people 8. Open borders are a good thing 9. The Jews stole the land from the Palestinians 10. The COVID shot is safe and effective. I could go on but that is enough for now.
ReplyDeleteIt's a funny thing nature provides a means to remove CO2 - trees. Oxygen the result. I remember in the good old days environmental weirdos use to hug trees now the climate change fanatics chop them down.
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