The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon as part of a Biden administration plan to promote energy conservation and clean energy

The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon, part of the Biden administration’s plan to promote clean energy and “reestablish the federal government as a sustainability leader.”

The Pentagon is one of 31 government sites that are receiving $104 million in Energy Department grants that are expected to double the amount of carbon-free electricity at federal facilities and create 27 megawatts of clean-energy capacity while leveraging more than $361 million in private investment, the Energy Department said.

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The solar panels are among several improvements set for the Pentagon, which also will install a heat pump system and solar thermal panels to reduce reliance on natural gas and fuel oil combustion systems

  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
    101·
    11 months ago

    I saw this and thought: “Hey, that’s a good first step, I wonder how long it is before they take another?” Not that the pentagon went green. Check your bias.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      312·
      11 months ago

      Taking steps that do nothing in lieu of steps that do something is the definition of greenwashing.

      Your response:

      “Hey, that’s a good first step, …"

      Demonstrates the effectiveness of the seeded story. Propaganda and marketing work.

      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
        71·
        11 months ago

        Wow, do you not understand incremental progress? And I never said that they were green. You can acknowledge progress (however slight) without being a stooge. So, what’s the amount of progress that it would take before you stop complaining about the small steps?

        • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
          210·
          11 months ago

          Oh I do understand the philosophy of incrementalism.

          I understand the consequences and costs of failing to take bold action to do what is necessary to change the course of a situation.

          Small steps have only taken us backwards, and it gets worse every cycle. Only bold steps and decisive actions have moved us towards a more perfect union.

          Not understanding the cost of small steps forwards on a train that’s hurtling in the wrong direction is meaningless. Its justification is to support the problem while being able to rinse your hands of the issue. The justification of smalls steps as progress while we’re clearly regressing is the fundamental problem we face as a society, because time, space, and oppurtunity are limited, you will only get so many opportunities to take action. When we either decide to take small steps, or accept them out of others, we further the issue.

          Incrementalism as a social philosophy is a failure, and is costing us our ability to survive on this planet, its costing us our ability to have a civil and just society.