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But solar energy is harmless, right? Well, not quite, for solar panels
compete with biological organisms for the light of the Sun. Let’s recall what
we pointed out earlier, that the technological system invariably expands
until it is using all available energy, and then it demands more. If fossil
fuels and nuclear power aren’t going to satisfy the system’s ever-growing
demand for energy, 73 then solar panels will be placed wherever sunlight
can be collected. This means, inter alia, that solar panels will progressively
invade the habitats of living things, depriving them of sunlight and there¬
fore killing most of them. This is not speculation—the process has already
begun. There are plans “to create huge solar energy plants in the deserts
of California, Arizona, Nevada and elsewhere in the West. ... The open
deserts are prime habitat for threatened plants and animals... .” 74 According
to Janine Blaeloch, executive director of the Western Lands Project, “These
[solar energy] plants will introduce a huge amount of damage to our public
land and habitat.” 75 And remember, the system’s appetite for energy is insa¬
tiable: In all probability, the development of solar energy will expand until
there is no habitat left for living organisms other than the domesticated
crops that the system grows to satisfy its own needs.
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-uncle ted
