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kravietz 🦇 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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Ironically, few people realise that “rapid renewables expansion” in practice implies rapid expansion of land surface turned into an industrial landscape, like the one portrayed on the photo in the article. They however do start to realise that when it’s their neighbourhood turned into such an industrial landscape, which is the primary reason for resistance against such farms in EU, UK and other high population density countries.
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b78dc952 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @kravietz 🦇 @Servelan Another aspect, this time without an easy workaround, is that the process of building the new infrastructure needs more traditional energy and materials on top of the current consumption. Let alone increased demand caused by the losses and damage due to man-made and natural disasters. 

I am yet to see a viable predictions showing, whether it is at all possible within currently known resources and environmental capacity. Even if that's the case, the next phase of human civilisation will most probably be "a scavenger civilisation" [J. M. Greer: 2017]

Of course, we have a wealth of scavenging tradition to refer to, so no despair - if we survive long enough.
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kravietz 🦇 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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Another aspect, this time without an easy workaround, is that the process of building the new infrastructure needs more traditional energy and materials on top of the current consumption. 

That is 100% valid point, because neither modern house insulation, nor PV panels, nor wind turbines can be made without energy and mined resources, and mining and processing of these also requires energy.

So anything mined and processed in say Germany will  be already 10x more CO2 intensive than e.g. in France as their electricity sectors are respectively based on coal and nuclear.

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