Energy Sprawl

As this post and this article in Nature suggest, going all-out renewable will gobble up some major habitat–if it’s not done right.

There are two money quotes in Amanda Leigh Mascarelli’s excellent Nature piece. The first is from Jimmie Powell, a policy expert at The Nature Conservancy:

If we are to prevent serious, damaging climate change, it will require one of the largest land-use changes in the history of the country.

The second is from conservation biologist Martha Groom:

I’m someone who believes that habitat change is as big a threat to our world today and our society as is climate change.