Comment by Lerc
8 hours ago
That's the judgement made with all consumption of energy. The benefits weighed against the costs.
Because of the harms of environmental change, there should be pressure placed to avoid damaging ways to generate that energy.
When people complain about the amount of energy being used, they are making the judgement on the benefits. This is subjective and people do not agree on the benefits. The argument you shouldn't do this because of the energy consumed is implicitly saying "My judgement on the worth of this supercedes yours"
Pretty soon it devolves into criticizing the energy use of things you just don't like.
A society has to accept that people have different opinions on things. That includes what it is worth using energy for.
Producing clean energy is something everyone should be able to get behind. There is a solid consensus that it would make a better world.
Producing cheap energy is something everyone should be able to get behind. There is a solid consensus that it would make a better world.
See what I did there? As long as you preach any ideology of yours without talking about its trade-offs you can claim everyone should get behind it. Obviously.
I don't see a problem with that statement.
If you get the situation where the two are in conflict then you have to bring in a judgement, but it makes it explicit what you are prioritising.
Luckily for the case of energy, solar meets both goals.