This film was made before wind turbines had truly started to metastasize across global scenic regions, and could use a sequel to cover that oft-denied problem, including the noise aspect that irks so many rural people.
Water pollution aside, areas like the Alberta tar sands are trivial to most of the world in terms of scenic disruption, noise and bird & bat deaths. Just study a map of how widespread the latter is compared to a relatively condensed area in Canada's north. See the USGS wind turbine database, and especially future plans for energy sprawl that people willfully ignore.
The Princeton 2050 Net-Zero America Project shows insane acreage being covered with wind and solar (that isn't built on roofs or parking structures).
The film portrays nuclear power as mostly a threat, but in terms of industrial footprints it could be a planet-saver in the electricity sector. It's much more reliable than wind power and far more in line with the "Tread Lightly" ethos environmentalists claim to have. Provided it's done safely, as in France. Old technology like Chernobyl has stained nuclear in too many minds.
This review is not an excuse for burning more oil, just a check-up on environmental hypocrisy over land use.
Water pollution aside, areas like the Alberta tar sands are trivial to most of the world in terms of scenic disruption, noise and bird & bat deaths. Just study a map of how widespread the latter is compared to a relatively condensed area in Canada's north. See the USGS wind turbine database, and especially future plans for energy sprawl that people willfully ignore.
The Princeton 2050 Net-Zero America Project shows insane acreage being covered with wind and solar (that isn't built on roofs or parking structures).
The film portrays nuclear power as mostly a threat, but in terms of industrial footprints it could be a planet-saver in the electricity sector. It's much more reliable than wind power and far more in line with the "Tread Lightly" ethos environmentalists claim to have. Provided it's done safely, as in France. Old technology like Chernobyl has stained nuclear in too many minds.
This review is not an excuse for burning more oil, just a check-up on environmental hypocrisy over land use.