'I want you to stop changing your lives, OK? We've been conditioned to think that change is good and exciting, but what if it's not? What if it's actually bad and very, very dangerous?' So says the Janitor, played by Neil Flynn, in one of the final episodes of my favorite TV show, 'Scrubs.' It's a silly-but-serious line that left a deep impression on me when I was a 16-year-old living a happy, healthy, fulfilling life, already averse to change.
For wildlife lovers who hate solar and wind farms spread across thousands of acres — and rooftop solar advocates who hate that monopoly utility companies control our energy supplies — it might mean coming to terms with the math showing that small local solar systems alone will never come close to powering modern society, not without radical changes to modern society. I wish radical changes were easier. I really do.