Believing that industrial wind power and solar panels are destined to improve our environment requires high-level cognitive dissonance. It demands that the true believer ignores the wholesale environmental destruction required to mine and process the minerals in rare earths needed for turbines and panels, not to mention the mega-batteries are supposed to lovingly store the power they occasionally generate; it helps to be able to ignore the millions of birds and bats (often rare and endangered) being smashed to smithereens every year by wind turbines; the wholesale destruction of wood lands and forests doesn’t signify, either; neither does the destruction of landscapes once prized for their visual and splendour.
Of course, ruining someone else’s backyard, never troubles the inner-city eco-zealot, who couldn’t care less about your community; he’ll never visit, let alone live there, so why should she?
As Matt Ridley outlines below, what passes for environmentalism these days has…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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