Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth

[txlibdem]

56. Your post is hyperbole yet still serves to prove my point

Global climate change is not going to take 10,000 years as did the onset of the last ice age. It won't take 1,000 years. It won't wait even 100 more years... IT'S HAPPENING NOW, and we are only at the bottom, the start of a hellish bell curve that will only get worse over our grandchildren's lifetimes (I guessed that you and I are of the same generation). That is not enough time for species to adapt (there may be a few exceptions to that rule, please don't bore me with exceptions as I won't respond).

Your statement "Clearing a functioning ecosystem and building stuff on top of it constitutes outright destruction" shows your ignorance of the vastness of the current deserts in the American South West. PS, global climate change is going to expand those deserts greatly. We'll have plenty of desert by the time this man-made royal cluster-f**k called fossil fuels is done with its damage to the environment. The President recently called for massive solar power plants in the deserts of California, Nevada, New Mexico and in the appropriate areas of Colorado and Utah. Since we only need 532 square miles of desert and those states constitute (as a SWAG) somewhere over 50,000 square miles the amount of "disturbed" desert is less than a percent. PS, the solar power plants will not be lined up in a row blocking the passage of wildlife (as an oil or natural gas pipeline would), nor will they be within physical contact with one another. They will be veritable dots on a map of those deserts. And the companies are taking great pains to relocate the species affected by the solar plant... have you ever heard of a coal power plant doing the same?

For a list of the (many) deserts in America, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_deserts