Admittedly, humanity has been shortsighted, wasteful and simplistic in our exuberant use of fossil hydrocarbons. Civilization as we know it has been built on this transformed organic matter for energy, manufacturing, transportation, food production, medicine, building materials and more. Sadly, it seems we now focus the same shortsighted exuberance on what is termed green energy.

A little investigation will inform those interested in knowing that acquiring, assembling and disposing of so-called green materials is a very expensive, dirty and destructive process, largely supported by energy-dense, reliable fossil hydrocarbons. Add to that the monstrous mass of exhausted material in the pipeline from green projects for which there is no good plan in place to manage. One example is the complexity and costs involved in recycling lithium-ion batteries.

The so-called green replacement option is being termed renewable, when it is only rebuildable at best.

Gary Pardy

Haleiwa

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