Rapacious Renewables: How The Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Is Devouring the Planet
June 15, 2021LINK
Crony capitalists aren’t just promoting subsidised wind and solar, they see subsidised Electric Vehicles as yet another means of lining their pockets with taxpayers’ money.
The marketing pitch is that this is all for the good of the Planet. Whirling wonders lovingly caressing breezes to capture ‘free energy’; energy-rich sunbeams falling gently onto sheets of shimmering glass-covered fields of silicon – what could be cleaner or greener than that.
Plug an EV into a notionally wind and solar power grid and the Planet must surely avoid our rapacious appetite for destruction, and last for eons to come.
Well, that’s the marketing myth, anyway.
At the heart of every EV, solar panel and wind turbine there is a bevy of rare minerals which, are fast becoming rarer thanks to our ‘inevitable transition’ to an all wind and sun powered future and the much heralded (and overhyped) shift to all EV motoring.
As Michael Klare explains below, there is no such thing as a free lunch. In short, ‘rare earths’ are so named for a reason; they happen to be mined in the more politically unstable and socially challenged parts of the world; and the Chinese Communist Party has taken a strategic interest in both mining and processing rare earths, to its significant economic advantage.
Lithium, Cobalt, and Rare Earths
Tom Dispatch
Michael Klare
20 May 2021
