The sentiments of an unidentified American officer to journalist Peter Arnett in Vietnam in 1968 that “it became necessary to destroy the village to save the village” seems to live on in 2022.
How else to describe the mad scientist, lunacy, light bulb moment to cover twenty five percent of Australia’s land mass in solar panels and wind turbines to achieve the climate chimera of net zero by 2050?
In this iteration, “it becomes necessary to visually pollute the landscape to save the landscape”.
The use of such imagery is necessary for the average person as it lifts the concept from the theoretical and the spitballing of ideas and tossing around numbers, to the practical and what it all means in reality.
It also further reinforces the case for nuclear.