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| At Burning Man there's a lot of carbon emitting going on. |
In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Reno, the Burning Man Project and affiliated groups accused the U.S. Bureau of Land Management of flouting environmental laws by approving a five-year “exploration” plan by Ormat Nevada Inc. for a future geothermal project in lands surrounding the festival site...There's the usual obligatory statement by the liberal organizers that alternative energy is important:
According to the suit, Ormat has leased more than 5,700 acres of land around Gerlach, with sites for 19 proposed drilling wells. The wells would be located alongside current hot springs and use the same geothermal fluid that now heats the springs, the suit said.
“No one I know is against green power,” [advisory board member Andy] Moore said in a statement released by the organizers. “What we are against is a company coming in, disregarding our public input, ignoring our questions, giving false statements, and damaging a community in order to fill their shareholders pockets while destroying our quiet nights, our property values, and our peace.”Environmentalists want to ban fossil fuels, but they also don't want alternative energy projects to disrupt their lifestyle. Offshore windmills disturb ocean views. Solar panels harm tortoises. These are all very good project-stopping reasons that would be roundly derided if uttered by opponents.
Progressives call anthropogenic global warming an "existential threat" but they do not behave as if their lives are really in danger. If they led by example--for instance, not flying private jets to climate change conferences--more people might go along with them.
Below is a video of last year's Burning Man festival. All those mostly young, mostly white people look like they're having a good time in a beautiful place, and I can understand why they want to keep it going.
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