It's Not Easy Being Green: Are Some of the Biggest Enviro Groups Giant Sell-Outs?

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5. "...utility-scale solar stations...that involve destroying vast stretches of wilderness"

“I feel like the community has splintered,” says Chris Clarke, a writer in Joshua Tree, California, and a co-founder of the group Solar Done Right, which has battled the construction of utility-scale solar stations in the Mojave Desert that involve destroying vast stretches of wilderness. “Some people are unwilling to call themselves ‘environmentalists’ because ‘environmentalist’ has now come to mean climate-change mitigation at any cost.”

People are noticing that renewables' footprint is not so renewable.