I noticed the other day in my news feed
that China is a world exporter of solar panels,
and thus they 'were making the planet cleaner'.
Oh yeah? Exporting greener goods
manufactured by dirty means,
is not what preserves a planet better
-it is starting the job of cleaning the planet
and exporting the rest of the job for somebody else to do.
The factories in which these Chinese workers
make the solar panels do not run on solar energy.
The homes the workers live in,
in the one party bully-state that is China,
do not come home to cleaner air
to add to the glow of green living.
They prefer the comfort of burning fossil fuels,
though they might stretch to having filters
fitted in their chimneys to capture the carbon,
and stop filling the air with poison fumes
that their ancient traditions were made of.
A Solar future for industry and electricity from the sun
is not a scam, and no other future will be as sustainable.
But until we start clean we won't stay clean.
Until then the making and selling of solar panels
will be mostly designed to win trade wars
whilst pretending to be the future,
and failing the present.
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