Comments on: Misleading “Energy Sprawl” Study Pollutes Climate Debate http://ilovemountains.org/news/602 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:52:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.18 By: Ross http://ilovemountains.org/news/602#comment-56901 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:52:40 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/news/602#comment-56901 Energy sprawl is a real concept: I’ve been talking about it for years. Tar sands in Alberta, oil palm plantations in Indonesia and Ecuador, wind farms up and down the Appalachians, Mountaintop Removal, sugar cane monocultures in Brazil; Powder River Basin coal mining, Marcellus Shale drilling and natural gas in the Rockies, it’s all energy sprawl. TNC made a HUGE mistake not to include the fossil fuel footprints into their study, and unfortunately, it does cloud the term. You have to wonder if that was politically motivated. But energy sprawl is very real. My hope is that if we see the big picture of the footprint of all this sprawl, we will realize we have to reduce our use, not just substitute one use for another. If we continue to grow, we will use up all our land for energy production, plain and simple, as Wendell Berry has said.

Neo: We’re over the fields, aren’t we?
Trinity: How do you know that?
Neo: I can feel them.

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