When Renewables Destroy Nature

		When Renewables Destroy Nature How Integrating Society Into Nature Can Be Bad For Both The case against using trees and crops as fuel for cars and power plants has grown stronger in recent years, but many have argued that the associated problems with bioenergy are anomalous. But in the first article from a forthcoming issue of Breakthrough Journal, Will Boisvert argues that bioenergy’s devastating impact on nature is typical of renewables, not exceptional. A world powered primarily by renewables, Boisvert argues, is unlikely to be environmentally friendly at all. He writes, “The renewable energy paradigm requires an unprecedented industrial reengineering of the landscape,” – one that “sees all of nature as an integrated machine for producing energy.” by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/michael-shellenberger-and-ted-nordhaus/when-renewables-destroy-nature