Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has always insisted she is not a climate change denier and that her rightwing government is committed to greener sources of energy.
But her coalition is putting the brakes on the rollout of solar panels on farmland, which Meloni has described as a “threat to our food sovereignty” — a claim refuted by some farmers and solar energy experts.
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“All that free energy is going to hurt the farmers.” Yeah. Ok.
The saddest part is that Italian farmland is quickly losing value due to climate change (especially lack of rain). Here is a great alternative source of income for farmers that will also solve the underlying problem. Instead they choose to continue to pollute.
Yeah. A fair amount of California’s utility-scale solar is built on land which was farmed for a while, but which didn’t have a sustainable water supply.
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The panels will clearly starve nearby plants of sun. All conservatives are equal
Meanwhile Italy’s population is declining. I guess that raises food consumption nowadays.
Hint: “food” is an excuse here, not some underlying issue.
Sad for a country with so much sun