There's a huge impetus insociety to move beyond consuming fossil fuels and progressively into "renewables". It's rapidly become a cliched view that this will protect our environment. I've always doubted this would actually be the case. Here's an insightful video on the impact of renewable energy on the environment. It is clearly NOT the global pancea that is being so heavily promoted (maybe we could just explore consuming less? or is that just too obvious!)...