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What rural people think about clean energy

by BasilPH on 11/9/23, 6:42 PM with 2 comments

• by starbase on 11/9/23, 7:17 PM

  > I hate that I'm going to have to say the word rural over and over again in this podcast. It's my least favorite word

  > advanced people who are going out to talk with the rural people

  > They are hooked up, trapped by, entirely captured by a gigantic propaganda machine

  > rural people's opinions about renewable energy as such are relatively shallow and easily shiftable

  > find people who speak [with a rural accent] and train them

  The host's condescension towards rural Americans could not be clearer

• by ZeroGravitas on 11/9/23, 7:02 PM

  > there is support for these projects, both solar and wind in rural communities. And support does outweigh the opposition as a whole. When we ask people, do you support or oppose solar energy and wind energy projects separately being built in the following areas, communities across your state, in your local community, or on a property near yours, we could see that support does outweigh opposition across the board. As you get a little closer to on properties near yours, you would expect to see some of the support drop off ... and the opposition increase, but not nearly as significantly as we thought it would.