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[Bob Wallace]

Keep burning fossil fuels and all that wildlife and flora will have to pack up and move north.

I absolutely agree that we need to minimize our impact, but continuing to burn coal rather than use a very, very small percentage of desert for solar and put some wind turbines on our windy ridges will cause far, far more environmental damage.

(Realistically, we aren't likely to use as much desert for solar as some like to imagine. The price of PV solar has fallen so rapidly that thermal solar is not so attractive any longer. It's better to put the PV on top of buildings and over parking lots/brown fields/landfills in order to reduce transmission costs.)