Unveiling the Future of Desert Landscapes: Solar Energy Development and its Environmental Impact The balance between environmental conservation and the inexorable push for renewable energy development has long been a point of contention. The recent draft proposal by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) underscores this dichotomy, outlining a plan for utility-scale solar energy development across the western United States. In Episode 2 of the third season of
No. No. NO! Let's not industrialize the desert! They did that east of the Columbia Gorge with those ghastly wind turbines. They disfigured the landscape making it into a manicured, "tamed" environment. I prefer my desert vistas to be freed of such human grotesque defacement. Not for aesthetic reasons, no- but because such vistas represent lands we haven't yet turned into our parks and playthings. If I could I would have the drylands have no roads into them but trails, no structures, no solar panels, no turbines, no lithium mining, no oil exploration... Just windswept wilderness, like it was before we got here and decided to "improve" things.
No. No. NO! Let's not industrialize the desert! They did that east of the Columbia Gorge with those ghastly wind turbines. They disfigured the landscape making it into a manicured, "tamed" environment. I prefer my desert vistas to be freed of such human grotesque defacement. Not for aesthetic reasons, no- but because such vistas represent lands we haven't yet turned into our parks and playthings. If I could I would have the drylands have no roads into them but trails, no structures, no solar panels, no turbines, no lithium mining, no oil exploration... Just windswept wilderness, like it was before we got here and decided to "improve" things.