Letter: Solar is good, but not if we lose forests
This massive solar farm, hard at work on April 4, 2015, sits along Edwards Avenue in Calverton. Credit: Steve Pfost
Destroying acres of trees to supply clean energy is wrong . Spare the trees and their surroundings. Better we should cut back on energy use to save the trees.
Solar power is a Band-Aid that pushes the real issue to the back burner. The real issue is the amount of electricity each of us uses.
Tom Stock, Babylon
What sort of twisted logic would allow for clear-cutting 44 acres to install a solar array?
Trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the atmosphere, which helps make this planet habitable. Solar power is a good thing but not at the expense of deforestation.
Find some other place to put the solar panels, please.
Hank Baumann, Wantagh
I agree that we should not be hasty in building solar sites . Instead, we need to plan the best spots for them, instead of haphazardly cutting down acres of wooded land. We should think of preserving that land, not selling it off to developers. Put solar sites in places that have already been developed but are no longer in use.
How about building solar sites on now-defunct shopping malls or business quads? There are plenty of them on Long Island.
Jeanne Klein, Williston Park
