Seen articles or videos suggesting that solar and other renewables have a huge environmental footprint? Right-wing institutes funded by the fossil fuel industry, are busy  dis-seminating disinformation about excessive resources needed to produce solar panels and wind turbines, conveniently overlooking the monumental amount of resources needed to take oil out of the ground and ship it around the world, not to mention extreme    environmental degradation caused by leaking pipelines or accidental spills of fossil fuels. They fail to mention the fact that once solar or wind turbines are in place there is no pollution whatsoever, or the astronomical climate costs of burning fossil fuels (plus pollution, health risks, habitat destruction, etc.). 
    Those of us promoting solar do so because it is the most benign of all energies, along with wind and geo-thermal. There are millions of acres of roofs and parking lots, just ripe for the placement of solar panels which, once in place, even help to protect those roofs or tarmac. Solar panels increase in efficiency and decrease   in price every year and although there is some mining required, it pales in comparison with the enormous footprint of fracking, oil sands or the incalculable risks of offshore oil rigs. Guaranteed for 25 years, solar panels can last much longer and the materials in them re-used at end-of-life. Help dispute the disinformation by fossil fuel interests who won’t be able to make colossal profits from sunshine and wind energy ~ because they are free!