[Sidewinder]

It seems as though the latest solution to climate change is to blanket the open space Mojave and Sonoran Deserts with miles and miles of solar panels. Doing this will require the scraping up of thousands of species of plants and animals. The southwest deserts have more biodiversity than most northern conifer forests. Scraping up all these plants will only make these deserts hotter and contribute more to global warming. Please talk about rooftop solar and developing only disturbed areas. Not the last open space in the west that so many life forms depend on.
Climate chage has simply become an opportunity for a bunch of new kids on the block to move up the corporate ladder. If they can actually cover the desert with solar and wind farms, these solar and wind farms will exist side by side with coal plants and fuel burning vehicles. There really are no
alternatives to fueling airplanes. Carbon emissions are here to stay with
us. Reducing it will be up to the individuals. The govenment would simply go bankrupt if people were really serious about it. That is sad. It looks to me that this new environmental fad will fade like the backlash of the James Watt years faded. If the plans to take away most of our deserts succeed, we will have no open space along with a changing climate. Environmental problems are not limited to the climate. There are serious problems with toxic pollution in our air, water, food we eat, products we buy..We dump this everywhrere and effect other plants and animals. We are very overpopulated. Species are vanishing each day and the climate is only one of the causes...yet the media seems to tunnel vision most environment problems to the climate. Not that it is not a problem, just part of a bigger picture and the other obvious details are mostly overlooked. To have the pope tell every nation that birth control is a sin after he talks about saving the environment does not make any sense to me. . To me, it will be a relief if most of these desert solar proposals fail, but the bigger picture is that the opportunity to use this new environment trend has really been handled badly. What a shame.

Those of us who live in the desert will fight these massive land grabs of "green" energy until people start to realize that the same can be achieved by putting solar panels on the roof tops of the millions of homes already in the southwest US. There are enough of these rooftops to do this without destroying one acre of undeveloped desert.

IT IS NOT GREEN TO TRASH PART OF THE EARTH TO SAVE IT!!!WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! IF YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT THE EARTH, YOU WILL NOT WANT TO KILL SO MUCH LIFE FOR SOLAR FARMS. THERE ARE OTHER WAYS!