At a time when the climate change agenda is being pushed by the globalists for de-industrialisation of the West, with Green energy somehow supposedly supplying enough energy to keep people alive, it is timely to see the notion of Green energy being allegedly more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels, being taken apart. Take solar panels for example.
Climate critic Michael Shellenberger has critiqued the Green notion that solar panels do not produce carbon emissions. In fact, research by the group Environmental Progress, cited by Shellenberger, has found that solar panels produced in China produce three times the carbon emissions that the UN says they do. The environmental costs are hidden by China’s production methods: “But the majority of experts consulted by Environmental Progress agree that China’s competitive advantage did not lie in an innovative new technological process, but rather in the very same factors the country has always used to outcompete the West: cheap coal-fired energy, mass government subsidies for strategic industries, and human labor operating in poor working conditions.