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What Is Underneath the Complaints About Solar and Wind?
We need to come together and stop sniping
Child labor. Rare metals are needed. Poor battery technology. Baseload power requirements that renewables can’t meet. End-of-life recycling. Effects on pollinators. Dependence on China. The arguments against wind and solar go on and on. To which I can only say… Really?
The planet is burning up. Millions already suffer from climate change, and millions — even billions more — will do so as well. We have an obvious solution to emissions that will make people’s lives better. And all you have to say is, “Nyet”?
Consider the Arguments
Renewable energy is produced without direct emissions. In today’s world, emissions are required to build these systems because we have to burn fossil fuels while mining the materials, manufacturing the parts, and assembling them. That’s obvious. It is also obvious that as electric vehicles and tools become ubiquitous and we use renewable electricity to operate them, these indirect emissions will be reduced. But we have to get from here to there.
The use of child labor to build solar cells is an abomination. So is the use of child labor to make shoes, bricks, fireworks, and carpets, which are some of the most common industries where child…
