2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you support fracking, or coal? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)surround us, pollution collects in our air. I cannot explain this from a technical point of view, but all of us who live in the Los Angeles area are very aware of the smog. Fossil fuels cause it, and it causes illnesses.
Solar and wind are practical here. Other forms of energy are not. It's just the reality. We are changing, but we need to move toward more solar and where wind is available, wind much, much more rapidly.
Coal and fracking in our area are impractical. Hydro -- we don't have that kind of water. We import it already. And our air quality has to be protected as well as our earth. We probably are not a very good place to have such a large city, but that cannot be changed either.
Solar and wind are the only realistic choices in Southern California in the long term.