Climate Change > France - destroying parkland to install solar panels; Activists deface a Monet in Paris museum

 

There is something obscenely grotesque in the destruction of parkland for the sake of climate change. Grotesque and utterly stupid! Fields of solar panels should only be permitted on extyreme wasteland of which there is very little in France. Otherwise, solar panels should be restricted to the tops of buildings.

Is there a plan to dispose of these panels once they expire? This needs to be addressed before any construction is approved, but, apparently it isn't.

Citizen activists take on 'destructive' solar power

plants in France's Provence region

Citizen activists in southeastern France’s Alpes-de-Hautes-Provence region have been campaigning for two years against the growing number of solar power parks in a protected natural area around the Lure mountain. The local authorities, and the parks' investors, claim the plants are “essential” projects in the fight against climate change, and in line with the ambitions of the European Green Deal. But the activists claim these projects are “destructive” for biodiversity and the landscape. 

Issued on: 03/06/2024 - 16:58

11 min

By: Cyrielle CABOT

A few hundred metres above the commune of Cruis, in the Alpes-de-Hautes-Provence region, Sylvie Bitterlin, a 62-year-old actress, stands in front of the security fence of a brand-new solar farm.

“Look, they've destroyed everything,” she says.

On the 17-hectare site, the garrigue or scrubland of Provence has been replaced by several thousand solar panels.

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It would be far more effective to destroy something related to their cause than to destroy the beautiful paintings that have positively affected people around the world. What? Did Monet use too much oil in his paints? You can never win people to your cause by destroying beauty, you only make enemies...

Climate activist defaces Monet painting in Paris

By Mark Moran

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