There’s a lot of anti-clean energy falsehoods out there, often spread deliberately as renewables grow exponentially and the fossil fuel industry gets desperate.
You can help stop this last-ditch gambit to slow down the renewables revolution by sharing Columbia Law School’s new report providing the facts on clean energy!
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As human civilization accelerates an epic exponential surge in clean energy technologies, there are a lot of blatant falsehoods out there attacking solar, wind, and electric vehicles, many of them directly funded by desperate fossil fuel propaganda.
As Bill McKibben said recently, “The fossil fuel industry knows that it's at now a technological disadvantage. There are cheaper, cleaner ways to produce the same product that they produce.”
Solar alone has been the cheapest electricity in history for years now and is set to account for 58% of new U.S. grid capacity coming online in 2024! Fabrications and politicking are among the last strategies left for fossil fuel companies to slow down their replacement by clean energy and squeeze a few more years of profit out of their inefficient, polluting product.
Fortunately, Columbia Law School just published an excellent new report that serves as a one-stop shop providing detailed research rebutting 33 of the most common anti-clean energy fabrications out there.
We’ll let the authors speak for themselves to give you an idea of the subject matter.
“For example, our report examines the common misconceptions that electric vehicles have a net harmful effect on climate change (they do not);
that electromagnetic radiation from wind turbines poses a threat to human health (it does not);
and that solar energy development negatively impacts U.S. jobs (it does not).
Some of the misconceptions examined in the report, such as the notion that whale deaths stem from noise related to wind farm surveys, are entirely unsubstantiated.
Others have some factual basis but are commonly repeated without necessary context: for instance, the notion that solar panels produce significant waste, without the context that fossil fuel energy generates far more.”
-Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles
At Climate Action Now, we’ve prepared ready-to-go actions to share this report with people in positions where knowing the facts on climate solutions will be vital. Your state legislator needs to read this!