Anybody planning to read “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All?”
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“It is based on two decades of research and three decades of environmental activism. At 400 pages, with 100 of them endnotes, Apocalypse Never covers climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, industrialization, meat, nuclear energy, and renewables. Some highlights from the book: Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress The most important thing for saving the environment is On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare 29/06/2020, 23:31 https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2020/06/28/on-be…environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/#1d44a0231fa8 Page 6 of 9 producing more food, particularly meat, on less land The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium 100% renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today’s 0.5% to 50% We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities Vegetarianism reduces one’s emissions by less than 4% Greenpeace didn’t save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did “Free-range” beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300% more emissions Greenpeace dogmatism worsened forest fragmentation of the Amazon The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants”
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But Why,
Have you read https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/27/1760304/-No-Solar-and-Wind-Aren-t-Raising-Electricity-Prices
With electric rates being the biggest cost, by far, in my industry, I have to watch that stuff closely, and work on projections out 10-15 years for project design decisions.
The short answer is yes, there have been many rate increases that are ultimately due to “renewable” energy mandates and emissions restrictions (among other similar things). If you have access to one of the commercial account sales reps with your local utility company they can generally detail some of this for you. There is no conspiracy about it, either, the utilities would love to cut their costs if the renewable sources were more viable economically.
This isn’t to say wind, solar, and others (especially waste gas generation, like using methane from landfills that would otherwise just be flared off) don’t have their place, but the thinking that green energy projects are going to lower electric rates is fallacy.
Bill