tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311929704697522769.post1773135730241246020..comments2024-03-28T00:15:16.769-07:00Comments on Mojave Desert Blog: Disentangling Urgency from Foolishness: Exposing the Climate-Terror ParadigmShaun G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17039896758011526968noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311929704697522769.post-38326471290680069192012-11-09T06:51:18.530-08:002012-11-09T06:51:18.530-08:00Just a couple of days ago, I drove across part of ...Just a couple of days ago, I drove across part of the Ivanpah Valley, heading to the Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness Area. To the right, the vastness and beauty of the Mojave National Preserve part of the Ivanpah Valley beckoned, to the left stood 3 black and white towers, miles in the distance, the BrightSource Energy Ivanpah SEGS site, which dominated the landscape, as Clark Mountain did before.<br /><br />Advocates for stopping climate change had a choice, and they chose the industrialization route. Instead of mountaintop removal or drilling in a rapidly warming Arctic, they chose the equally destructive paving over a desert ecosystem paradigm, proving once and for all that they are brothers-in-arms with the polluters.<br /><br />To their credit, some, like Paul Kingsnorth, have come to their senses and realized a fact that others have already figured out, that you do not have to destroy this planet in order to save it.Others ,like McKibbon,I fear will never get it, so we will continue this shotgun approach to fight climate change and global warming.<br /><br />It is common sense to cover the rooftops with solar panels and to site the renewable energy tools, such as concentrated solar and pv fields, and windfarms upon the so many hundreds of thousands of acres of degraded and washed up land that exist so close to the power users, but evidently common sense is a commodity in short supply nowadays, it doesn't play well with the idealists and big money people evidently; so we are in the mess that we are in now.<br /><br />My fear is that by the time that this is all sorted out, there won't be any unpaved over wilderness to even advocate for.Morongobillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04423986732712894214noreply@blogger.com