{"id":57402,"date":"2021-04-05T07:26:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57402"},"modified":"2021-04-05T07:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:26:14","slug":"book-review-of-bright-green-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57402","title":{"rendered":"Book review of \u201cBright Green Lies\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book review of \u201cBright Green Lies\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n
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This is a book review of \u201cBright Green Lies. How the Environmental Movement Lost its Way and What We can Do About It\u201d by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert.<\/p>\n

This is a timely book.\u00a0 The Biden administration is alarmed by how China controls up to 90% of rare earth and other essential minerals we\u2019ll need for bright green power and anything else electronic. Analysts are predicting that the Biden infrastructure plan will include mines for lithium (such as the open-pit lithium mine at Thacker Pass, Nevada), a new copper mine in Arizona on land the San Carlos Apache Tribe considers sacred and more destruction of U.S. land, rivers, and aquifers.<\/p>\n

This book covers the amazing amount of damage bright green power will do to the climate, biodiversity, and ecology, but above all by mining.\u00a0 If you are trying to lose weight, read this book, you will lose your appetite, I guarantee you!<\/p>\n

And why destroy our country to mine metals to compete with China? In my book \u201cLife After Fossil Fuels<\/a>\u201d, I write \u201cLet China monopolize the second most polluting industry on earth. Mining spews out acid rain, wastewater, and heavy metals onto land, water, and air.\u00a0One fifth of China\u2019s arable land is polluted from mining and industry<\/strong>.\u00a0 Mining the materials needed for renewable energy potentially affects 50 million square kilometers, 37% of Earth\u2019s land (minus Antarctica), with a third of this land overlapping key biodiversity areas, wilderness, or protected areas. If mined, that would drive biodiversity loss, harm (rain) forests, and poison ecosystems.\u00a0 Renewable energy is anything but clean and green. And quite a Pyrrhic victory for China!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

alice friedemann, bright green lies, renewable energy, clean energy, misinformation, lies, propaganda, ecology,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book review of \u201cBright Green Lies\u201d This is a book review of \u201cBright Green Lies. How the Environmental Movement Lost its Way and What We can Do About It\u201d by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert. This is a timely book.\u00a0 The Biden administration is alarmed by how China controls up to 90% of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,6],"tags":[11836,31118,27351,234,2864,1426,655,674],"class_list":["post-57402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-bright-green-lies","tag-clean-energy-2","tag-ecology","tag-lies","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}