What's the carbon footprint of cutting down 15,000 trees to build a solar farm?

Ecotwit insanity on steroids: They paved paradise to put up a solar farm.

Solar energy devastates the environment! Now that's funny!

You can't make this stuff up.

You know what's even funnier?

The greenies are unhappy!

"This gives green energy a black eye. You cannot cut down a forest for solar panels. That's the opposite of being green," said Jeff Tittel, executive director of the Sierra Club of New Jersey, one of the groups formally objecting to the project. "You don't destroy a habitat in a forest in the name of clean energy."

Said the guy who wants solar panels on every office building in the universe and a windmill in everyone's back yard (except his, of course).

If only there was a carbon-neutral generating plant nearby that wasn't being mothballed 10 years early due to endless complaints from Jeff and his merry band of anti-nuclear luddites. And if only there wasn't a replacement reactor on the drawing board that, you guessed it, is rabidly opposed by You Know Who.

Sorry econuts, you made your green bed. Now reap what you've sown.

Because when the going gets green, the greenery gets bulldozed. That's Progress!

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