"Green energy is not what it's made out to be."
In his latest documentary, Michael Moore holds out a mirror for us. For all the talk about GEF, Climate Change and Carbon Footprints it turns out that a lot of it is just hogwash, or even worse - a massive PR exercise by the very same conglomerates that are destroying our natural resources.
The whole video is still out there, free and accessible for all those want to get try and extricate their heads that are still buried in the sand. This post is just a collection of screenshots that I felt demolished conventional wisdom about "green" energy.
Much of non-conventional energy is useful only when it can be stored, and the global capacity for such storage is still very, very small.
The so-called pioneer of green energy - Germany - is just like the fabled Emperor Without Clothes. Beyond Germany, it seems the global renewable energy scenario looks like this -
Solar and wind energy is dwarfed by Biomass, which seems like a renewable resource and a lot better than coal and petroleum -- until you get to know that most of the biomass energy plants feed on wood chips which again is extracted from forests that are being cut down in developing countries!
Meanwhile there has been a sharp drop in global marine fish production as well as a steady decline in the availability of agricultural land..
And all this can be attributed to a single factor -- the steep rise in human population over the past 200 years.
Unless we focus our attention on this cliff nothing is going to come from any amount of money being thrown at "Green Energy".
The full documentary -
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