Green vs Green
We haven't talked about a good environmentalist wild-west style shootout in a while. Authorites in California have endorsed the construction of a 150 mile electricity transmisson line to carry power from wind and solar projects in the desert to San Diego.
State law requires utilities to supply 20% of their energy from renewable sources by 2010 – a benchmark SDG&E has said it cannot meet. The San Diego utility supplies 6% today.
Unfortunately the transmission lines are proposed to go through some pretty areas and some environmentalists aren't too happy.
“The idea that we’re going to sacrifice critical pieces of our environment to protect other pieces of our environment seems a little ironic,” said Elizabeth Goldstein, president of the nonprofit California Parks Foundation. “That’s an irony I cannot accept. We have to find a way to do both.”
The governor find this ironic...
“It’s a kind of schizophrenic behavior,” the Republican governor said recently at a Yale University conference on climate change. “They say that we want renewable energy, but we don’t want you to put it anywhere.”
...and so do I.
It's not the same people, obviously.
People who are not, broadly, environmentalists like to think the bucket holds a single type but that's not at all true.
People who are in it for the "pretty" many not be the same ones who are in it for the "health."
Posted by: odograph | August 20, 2008 at 09:55 AM
Counter-smear: more games non-enviros play
Posted by: odograph | August 20, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Replacing existing infrastructure with new infrastructure has an environmental cost!??!!
Who would have thought that?
Oh wait i did....multiple times. In fact I have written that here....multiple times.
Posted by: joshua corning | August 20, 2008 at 02:27 PM
environmentalists seem to come in a few common flavors however.
1) Altruistic but ignorant do-gooders
2) commercial interests playing on these peoples fears
3) A very few smart people who lack universal perspective (they tend to be grouped with the #1 group)
Posted by: jim | August 20, 2008 at 04:22 PM
environmentalists seem to come in a few common flavors however.
1) Altruistic but ignorant do-gooders
2) commercial interests playing on these peoples fears
3) A very few smart people who lack universal perspective (they tend to be grouped with the #1 group)
Posted by: jim | August 20, 2008 at 04:23 PM
operative word "seem", I guess
Posted by: odograph | August 20, 2008 at 05:43 PM
(Put another way, does everyone not in 1,2,3 support paving Yosemite for a new WalMart?)
Posted by: odograph | August 20, 2008 at 05:49 PM