Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "How much land is needed for the US to be powered by wind u0026 solar..." video.

  1. All we have to do is more than double our output of copper, cobalt, and a number of other metals, which has never been done and will require a huge diversion of all production to One Thing. Or the two or three things that represent the extent of your imagination. Meanwhile, how many people will freeze or starve? How many other, better ideas, will die before they're even born? Do you realize how much energy and how many resources are needed for your pipe dream? Do you realize that the vast majority of solar panels are produced by what amounts to slave labor, in factories powered by dirty coal? You have a false impression of the trade-offs, because you're fixated on top-down solutions, rather than ground-up solutions. Less than 1% of the land mass is still a MONUMENTAL undertaking, sucking resources from every OTHER endeavor. Your "climate targets" are based on junk science, and you've got this oblivious NMBY attitude that assumes all these wonderful things will just magically happen without massive costs to every other sector of human endeavor. You discount the environmental cost because you're fixated on one variable. The world isn't a place where you just pull levers and everything magically works out fine. Have you seen the cobalt mines? The lithium mines? Have you seen the black skies in China? Do the math. Better yet, just do the arithmetic.
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