>We have huge unpopulated deserts and humans aren't really causing any stress on their ecosystems outside climate change. Unpopulated by humans you mean. >hum

>We have huge unpopulated deserts and humans aren't really causing any stress on their ecosystems outside climate change. Unpopulated by humans you mean. >humans aren't really causing any stress on their ecosystems If you place tens of millions of solar panels in a region you will destroy the ecosystem of that region, and yes, deserts are ecosystems too. Maybe you feel that is a fair trade and we will need to make these kinds of trade-offs ... but what if there was an alternative that used 100 times less land area for the same amount of power generated and works at night too? Would you still make the trade? Also, there is this weird assumption made by proponents that only deserts or 'undesirable' land is going to be used for renewable deployment. That's not true today, and it will not be true in the future as we scale up the renewable infrastructure.