A 2020 survey counted 4,700 trees on the project site. Since then, however, the size of the project has been reduced.
Hundreds of Joshua trees appeared to have been destroyed in the last week, but on some portions of the site the trees still stand, residents said. Neither the company nor government agencies would say how many trees have been cut down. Avantus, the developer, said fewer trees will be destroyed than the government approved.
Heavy equipment has not yet started leveling the land where the trees were felled to prepare for the solar panel installation.
Residents fear the earth-moving work will increase the threat of valley fever — a fungal respiratory infection that is transmitted in dust. A local group found the fungus that causes valley fever in samples of topsoil from the five parcels surrounding the towns where the solar panels will be built.
And, if you ignore the trees, how many critters are being killed, burrows- and the land for- trashed, and so on?
But GREEN!
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Welcome to Bizarro World.
Missing from the story is how pitifully inefficient solar cells are or how they will never supply any meaningful amount of electricity. (Just like wind turbines)
If all the green nuts had concentrated their studies on science and engineering instead of gender studies and pronouns, they might have developed a smaller, more effective collector by now.
-lg
A coworker contracted valley fever. He was lucky; he survived. He lost over a hundred pounds in the process (not by choice) and missed about a year and a half of work. When I worked with him, he was slowly coming back. He said he was about 60 to 70% of where he used to be. Not something to mess with.
If we executed sodomites and traitors, and exercised discipline and prudence and lived humbly, things would indeed be much better.
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