Originally Posted by
LowKey
Does it bother anyone else that solar panel farms are springing up on what is arable land? I'm not going to begrudge a property owner the ability to do what they want with their land, up to a point, but if the place is suitable for growing food and has been kept up for such in the past, do we really think it is a good idea to scrape the topsoil down to the clay, put up solar panels, use herbicides to keep the undergrowth down, any that manages to grow in the soil that's left, and sell that topsoil for people's grass lawns?
Though I guess it's no different from building subdivisions on old farmland.
Still, the taking up of good acreage and making it a death zone really does need to be thought about more. More dual purpose thinking needs to go into this.