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How are solar panels or windmills a trick?

• null0ranje 4y ago
  I don't think solar panels or windmills are a trick, but I think OP was referring to "net zero" initiatives, which are not much more than accounting scams. Most carbon credits, if even verifiable, don't involve reductions but rather promises to not cut down existing forests for X years. Western countries are trying to do what they do best: buy their way out of a problem that takes actual effort.
• kettleballroll 4y ago
  They're not removing co2 from the atmosphere. So they help reduce new emissions, but they don't help with the existing ones.
• lm28469 4y ago
  because we use them additionally to existing sources, not as a replacement: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_image/public/paragraphs/images/fig1-installed-net-power-generation-capacity-germany-2002-2021.png?itok=k2BK48jz https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g... Less energy = less growth = recession = bad, we're stuck in that