Ten years ago the great Kermit the Frog introduced his classic, "Its not Easy Being Green." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZ-IxZ46ng) Today's climate warriors face a similar dilemma. An example of this can be found in today's Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/articles/solar-powers-land-grab-hits-a-snag-environmentalists-11622816381) where we have a story about Mojave Desert residents opposing an industrial scale solar farm for Facebook on narrow environmental grounds. Hello! If climate change is such an existential threat to the planet why say no to solar power?
This story will be played over and over as so-called environmentalists oppose high voltage transmission lines that will bring electricity from solar and wind farms to the great urban centers, offshore wind farms, the mining of copper, lithium, cobalt and rare earths that are so necessary for electrifying the economy, and the construction of carbon-free compact nuclear power plants. Something has to give and in paving the road to a carbon neutral economy environmentalists are going to have to give up on many of their long held shibboleths. And the Biden Administration is going to have to find a way to fast track their climate projects.
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