The amount of area needed for solar does not even begin to approach the amount of farm land. People generally aren’t building solar panels on farmland anyways? The largest instillations in the US are in the middle of the fucking desert.

Also get rid of as many parking lots as possible.

There is just so many layers of false and absurd narrative in this.

[–] zazo@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This post was maybe referring to agrovoltaics?

The largest instillations in the US are in the middle of the fucking desert.

Still this is obviously worse right? We're taking untouched wilderness and turning it into a wasteland of blue silica. Deserts are pretty unique biomes with their own set of diverse animal and plant wildlife.

Farm land is already void of most biodiversity and usually used to grow corn or some other form of unnecessary cattle feed - yeah ideally both get rewilded - but it feels better to reuse an already existing bio wasteland instead of creating new ones..

[–] Johanno 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It depends on how you see environment safety.

Either you want to safe dieing species and biomes, or you want to safe somehow the global ecosystem that keeps us alive.

First is illusionary, second is apparently too expensive according to the industrial nations.

If you can place solar in the desert without killing food supply, then do it!

The USA will have a big problem producing food once the Mediterranean climate zone wander north.

Also a lot of USAs food production is supported by a big underwater reservoir that is very close to dry up....

However I never see that they adress this issue....

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