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Saw a huge solar farm being built near my hometown in Iowa and it got me thinking
I drove past a new solar farm going up outside Des Moines last week. It's huge, maybe 200 acres of panels. On one hand, it's great to see clean energy being built right here, and it will power a lot of homes. But on the other hand, it used to be a corn field, and now it's just metal and glass. It makes me wonder if we are trading one problem for another. Are we helping the climate by using less coal, but hurting it by covering up good farmland that could grow food? I know we need solar power, but seeing all that land changed really stuck with me. What do you all think is the right balance between building clean energy and keeping our farmland?
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the_abby5mo ago
Yeah, that "trading one problem for another" feeling is real.
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rubywebb5mo ago
Tell me about it, @the_abby. My life's a swap meet.
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lisa8204mo ago
It's like every time you fix one thing, three more break loose. You patch a hole in the roof and find a leak in the basement type of thing. @rubywebb that swap meet feeling never quite settles, does it. Feels like the universe is just trading one mess for another so you never get a clean break.
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