The Problem With Ecology Is That It Is Perceived As Choices
Whereas we literally don’t have a choice.
Today is election time in France. And the contender against reelection for Macron is a far-right woman named Marine Le Pen. Her ecology program? Remove all wind turbines and solar panels in France.
We are in 2022 and that’s not a joke.
Climate and global warming might be the greatest threat to humankind but hey, ecology is about choices right?
She can choose to remove wind turbines if instead, she builds low carbon nuclear power plants right?
Wrong.
Ecology isn’t about choices. We simply don’t have the luxury anymore to choose between solar or nuclear or whatever other ‘option’ there is.
We have to do it all and as much as we can. And it’s also not that easy to build nuclear power plants so when I hear her proposing to build 20 new ones it makes me sick.
We don’t have time to remove functioning renewables just because a racist politician thinks they don’t look nice in the landscape. We barely have time to fight global warming by giving our best right now so there can be no time to hinder this progress.
