A renewable energy company will soon begin clearing thousands of protected Joshua trees just outside this desert town, including many thought to be a century old, to make way for a sprawling solar project that will generate power for 180,000 homes in wealthier coastal neighborhoods.
To be precise, some 4000 Joshua trees on about 2,300 acres. Two local communities are up in arms but they’re rural and poor so nobody gives a shit about their opinions. Other environmentalists from the wealthy coastal enclaves of California may get involved but much as it would be schadenfreudialicious to watch the Red on Red action it seems that it’s all too late and the chainsaws will crank up in the next few days.
Meanwhile in China…
Heavy haul means coal, 200 million tons of it a year.
No Minister 
Perspective is always nice.
4,000 trees out of how many in California?
Note: Millions of Joshua Trees burnt in one wildfire.
2300 acres out of 105 millions acres n California.
If it saves just one Joshua Tree….🥲🥲
I hope you can imagine the outcry were these 4000 Joshua trees being cut down to make way for a nuclear power plant – or anything else for that matter, other than a solar farm.
One hail storm and all those shitty environmental “panels” will be toast.
One California earthquake and they will be twisted out of shape.
But I get the irony of your post.
I dont think possibly Roy does, but he doesn’t get that the fact you could probably put 10 nuclear power stations on the same site, produce 100 more times Ghw’s, running 24 hours a day (not just sunshine hours,) at 100 times less the cost, 2000 times the reliability. Energy density is the key to the economics!
As for the bird life, and other life that is going to fry, tough shit.
I wonder if they will chip the trees for wood pellets, another big favorite of the green madness.
I’m with the Joshua trees, not because I am a greenie, or a true greenie, but because of the economics.
Watch the doco, Planet of the Humans to see what happens to solar panels when they get past their use by date, shocking