Let’s All Sit in the Dark: No Energy Source is Good Enough
16th March 2011
Ronald Baily ponders environmentalism.
Oil? Spills and carbon emissions. Coal? Mountaintop removal and carbon emissions. Natural gas? Fracking and carbon emissions. Hydro? Strangling wild rivers and methane emissions. Wind? OK, but not in scenic areas like off Cape Cod or on mountain ridges in West Virginia and don’t kill any birds. Solar? OK, but not in fragile deserts where it destroys Native American holy sites. Wind & Solar? Certainly don’t want any unsightly high-voltage power lines criss-crossing the countryside.