Ep 23: WICKED SOLAR: How Alternative Energy Threatens Already Endangered Wildlife
WILD ROOTS
English - March 09, 2020 21:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNatural Sciences Science conservation anthropocene ecology wildlife climate biodiversity field biology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
An estimated 690-megawatt solar power generating facility is about to be built on roughly 7,100 acres of public land. Located within the Mojave Desert, around 33 miles northeast of Las Vegas and directly south of the Moapa River Indian Reservation. What could be wrong about that? Afterall, solar energy is the best alternative energy, right?
Turns out, our energy consumption demands are also consuming critical habitat for multiple federally threatened and endangered species on irreplaceable wild landscapes.
The Mojave Desert tortoise is a federally threatened keystone species protected by the Endangered Species Act. Then why is its habitat being destroyed...
Solar power is people-approved. But all big businesses see is profit.
Solar panels belong over parking lots and on rooftops not in our precious public lands!
Photo of Endangered Mojave Desert Tortoise provide by ‘Basin and Range Watch’
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