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Explore the balance of renewable energy development and ecosystem protection in the Mojave Desert's environmental crisis.

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There are varied forces arrayed against wind and solar, but Todd Woody at Yale Environment 360 nicely sums up the situation in the California desert:

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The Mojave has become a metaphor for an existential crisis in the environmental movement as it tries to balance the development of renewable energy with its traditional mission to protect ecosystems.

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