Experts warn of downsides of renewable energy: Increased mining activity, pollution, economic uncertainty
08/07/2020 / By Virgilio Marin
The call for renewable energy has been gaining traction in recent years due to concerns over escalating environmental pollution. A great deal of pressure is felt among policymakers and private companies as green activists and agencies lobby for a greener solution to humanity’s demand for energy.
But a recent report from the Manhattan Institute think tank showed that renewable energy has a lot of broad environmental and supply-chain implications that undermine its supposedly green advantages.
Environmental impact of increasing renewable energy usage
Report author Mark Mills, a senior fellow at Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University, wrote that no energy system is renewable in reality. That’s because all machines rely on continual mining and processing of millions of tons of raw materials such as heavy metals.
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