I am getting very worried about the Democrats big plans for green energy. Traditionally, even "liberals" have always ignored the desert beauty. I can't tell you how many so called environmentalists I have heard who seem to have no problem plastering the public lands in the desert southwest with miles and miles of solar developments and wind turbines. While we should be using this energy, it should be going on rooftops and other previously disturbed areas. I am rather shocked how few environmentalists are not talking about the threats "green" energy have on the biodiversity of the desert. Both Hillary and Obama, not to mention McCain are planning to ruin our deserts with these kneejerk political reactions to global warming. Global warming is real. Alternative energy is a great thing to be persuing, but we should not jump the gun and agree to these vast proposals to alter our deserts with destructive green energy projects. Why are there no environmentalists posting opinions on the threats of green energy? Let's not play dangerous politics with our desert. If we stop all carbon emissions tomorrow, we still will not stop the shift we have caused on the climate. So let's slow down and start talking about green energy that will not trash our deserts. I live in the Mojave Desert in the Southwest US. There are permits to cover most of the public lands around my home for this. Many of these projects will go nowhere because most of the locals will protest the applications for water rights. Not because we are for coal and nuclear. We will protest those because we love our home. All of these giant corporate solar and wind farms are designed to make a few power companies rich. Plus, none of them are designed to REPLACE coal and nuclear power.
There are alternatives to plastering the desert with these eyesores.

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