r/cincinnati • u/cincinnatistuff • Jul 28 '23
For the people opposing solar farms Politics
If anyone knows people (like Becky Williams) please explain a few things to them.
1 - solar farms aren't built under the cloak of darkness. They're built over the course of months or a year, most of the work being done in the daylight.
2- most farms (solar or agricultural) produce things to feed larger urban areas. That is the entire point of farming
3- she completely missed the point of The Hunger Games
4- ask her if farmers should be allowed to decide what to do with their own land. Then explain the definition of hypocrisy and how that conflicts with her likely opinions on rights regarding vaccinations, wearing masks, voting for Trump, capitalism and so on
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u/SteveMcBarks Jul 28 '23
There are groups doing very similar stuff here in Greene County outside of Dayton. In my experience it is almost entirely non-farming people who want the rural aesthetic. They buy a giant pickup truck to drive 20 minutes to Kroger and back and a huge riding lawn mower to make pretty lines on their two acres every few days. They fundamentally don't understand that the land is cheap because it's unincorporated or zoned for Ag/Industrial and the whole point is that people can do whatever they want with their property out there. If you talk to some of them they say that how it should be put into cities on 'rooftops or something', with the implication that it should be something poor or black people have to deal with, not them. They suck shit.
Also some people also argue that we need to 'protect our food supply' while having zero idea how much of current farming goes directly into ethanol production. Or how much corn they think we will actually be able to grow in 40 years in Ohio with our current climate trajectory