The journey from "Let the market decide" and "People should be allowed to choose what to do with what they own" to "We must compel people to grow beetroot" has been fascinating.
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James O'Malley
Parliament is currently voting on an amendment by a bunch of Tory MPs to... block solar development.
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Echoes of climate denial in the way that they ignore evidence that contradicts their view.
"...suggesting no deterioration of ecosystem functioning in solar farms if converted from agricultural land. In fact, plant cover and soil carbon showed signs of improvement as solar farms aged ..."
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ada45b/meta