Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet”

Exposing the Big Game

The dismal reality is that green energy will save not the complex web of life on Earth but the particular way of life of one domineering species.

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/03/climate-biodiversity-green-energy/

Christopher Ketcham

December 3 2022, 4:00a.m.

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A boiler tower surrounded by mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert, Calif., on Aug. 26, 2022.

Photo: David McNew/Getty Images

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY FINDSitself in a terrifying place today, witness to mass extinction, helpless to stop the march of industrial Homo sapiens, the pillage of habitat, the loss of wildlands, and the impoverishment of ecosystems. Many of its leading figures are in despair. “I’m 40 years into conservation biology and I can tell you we are losing badly, getting our asses kicked,” Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under President Barack Obama, told me recently. “There are almost no reasons to be optimistic.”

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