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The Environment
The Environment
RENEWABLE ENERGY
BY HOODWINKED IN THE HOTHOUSE
R enewable energy can considered renewable energy but sources of energy. However,
limits,
be part of real solutions
Earth’s
can exacerbate climate change
distance,
climate
to
change,
economics and social justice
and cause a great deal of harm to
but there are quite a
few caveats. In the spirit of the environment and communities all play roles in determining
including: Biomass, biofuels,
whether these energy sources
greenwashing, many things incineration, landfill gas-to- are truly renewable or
may be labeled renewable energy, hydrogen, “renewable sustainable.
energy that are actually false natural gas” or factory farm
solutions. Several of the methane digesters, nuclear and Land, Limits and Resources
energy sources discussed in corporate hydropower. Solar and
this report are sometimes wind can be genuinely renewable Solar and wind are ways
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