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latimes:

Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth: BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah solar power project will soon be a humming city with 24-hour lighting, a wastewater processing facility and a gas-fired power plant.

To make room, BrightSource has mowed down a swath of desert plants, displaced dozens of animal species and relocated scores of imperiled desert tortoises, a move that some experts say could kill up to a third of them.

Environmentalists are torn over the high cost of breaking reliance on fossil fuels. Public comment has been sought, but insiders are calling the shots.

Read our article here, and be sure to check out the accompanying graphic.

Images: Top, Artist’s conception of Ivanpah ‘solar farm’ project. Bottom, the impact of a solar farm on desert ecosystems.

POWER TOWER.

Hey, I have a brilliant idea. Let’s take an ecosystem that’s already extremely fragile, where life struggles to get by, and totally fuck it up because who gives a shit, right?

This isn’t “saving the Earth”. That’s the first lie. Second, these energy systems need to be stopped and/or dismantled as much as the Tar Sands. This is an attempt to sustain the unsustainable, and an attempt to save industrial civilization rather than “the environment”.

(What is “the environment”? Oh, you know, just every fucking living thing from thunderclouds to spiders. Just “the environment”, you know.)

Bright Green lies, the so-called “environmental movement” is full of them.