Newly Built CO2-Emitting Plants Outpace Closings

Did you know that the new $2 billion Ivanpah solar plant in the Mojave desert is a death ray that ignites birds in mid flight? When their bodies fall to the ground, they leave smoky trails in the sky called streamers. It is estimated up to 30,000 birds per year will die this way at just this one green power plant. Bigger solar plants of the same type are in the works. These birds are attracted to the bugs who are attracted to the shiny, pretty lights, just like us. During its construction, some 3,000 endangered desert tortoises were killed by heavy diesel equipment. Over 1.2 million Tibetans were killed after being forced into slave labour in China's mines to help produce the exotic minerals for its construction. This is referred to as the "Green Economy". If we changed the whole planet to green power, we would kill the earth we call home.

The manufacture of 5, one-megawatt, wind turbines produces 1 ton of radioactive residue and 75 tons of hazardous waste water. Wind turbines only provide 25% of their rated power output 90% of the time.

The manufacture of solar panels lets off some of the deadliest greenhouse gases known to humankind. These include hexafluoroethane (12,000 times stronger than CO2), nitrogen trifluoride (17,000 times stronger than C02), and sulfur hexafluoride (23,000 times stronger than C02). Solar manufacturing plants produce 500 tons of hazardous sludge each per year.

Prof. Jian Shuisheng of the Jiatong-University estimates the production of just 6 solar panels requires one ton of coal. This works out to about 660 lbs of coal per square yard of solar panel. This is because the silicon has to be baked at 2,000°F.
Green energy requires conflict minerals, rare earth elements and heavy metals. These items are approaching the limit on their energy return on energy invested. Because green energy is intermittent, we would require 10 times the amount of power to displace a fossil fuel equivalent.

? 10,000 years ago humans and our livestock occupied just 0.01% of all the land-air vertebrate biomass on earth.
? Now humans and our livestock occupy 97% of all land-air vertebrate biomass.
? Humans and our livestock now consume over 40% of earth’s annual green biomass production.
? 50% of All Vertebrate Species will be gone by 2040.
? 90% of Big Ocean Fish gone since 1950.
? 50% of Great Barrier Reef gone since 1985.
? 50% of Fresh Water Fish gone since 1987.
? 30% of Marine Birds gone since 1995.
? 28% of Land Animals gone since 1970.
? 28% of All Marine Animals gone since 1970.
? 50% of Human Sperm gone since 1950.
? Extinctions are 1000 times faster than normal.
? Ocean acidification doubles by 2050.
? Ocean acidification triples by 2100.
? 90% of Lions gone since 1993.
? 93 Elephants killed every single day.
? 2-3 Rhinos killed every single day.
? Bees die from malnutrition lacking bio-diverse pollen sources.
? We are on track to lock in 6°C earth temp rise in just 13 years.
? Mass Extinction becomes unstoppable and irreversible in 40 years.
? Permian mass extinction of 95% of life took 60,000 years 250 million years ago.
? Dinosaurs mass extinction took 33,000 years after asteroid impact.
? Anthropogenic mass extinction will take 300 years max.
? This mass extinction is 100 times faster than anything before us.
? 1 million people born every 4½ days.
? It takes 10 times as much “green” energy to displace 1 unit of fossil energy.
? Efficiency and conservation only causes more growth within current system.
? Antarctic meltdown now irreversible and unstoppable.
? Arctic methane burst is irreversible and unstoppable within current system.
? World Bank says we have 5-10 years before we fight for food and water.