Difference between revisions of "There are no sustainable energy sources/impact"

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2014/04/29 [L..T] Mobility in Cities is About Space - Proven Powerfully in Pictures! "Even if all vehicles became electric tomorrow (which they won't), and even if your local electric energy sources are on the renewable side, like BC's hydro-electric power (which they're likely not - it's just as likely they're on the especially dirty side, like coal), the truth is there's no totally "clean" energy source, no energy without impacts. The only real energy solutions are urban densities, use-mixes and patterns, and personal choices, that depend on much less energy."

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-[[Sustainable energy]] is sometimes derided because it still has "impacts"; it isn't perfectly "clean".
-This argument is a [[straw man]] (nobody is claiming that it is perfectly clean), a mis-[[interpretive framing|framing]] of the issue as being about "cleanness" rather than [[sustainability]], and [[moving the goalposts]] to infinity (there is no human activity that is ''perfectly'' clean, that has ''no'' environmental impacts).
-It is true on the face of it, of course -- any method of energy generation is going to have some impact if multiplied by the energy needs of enough people -- but some methods have [[../consumption|far less impact]] than others.
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