"The smugness exhibited by the owners of solar panels is in its own special class.
Pious and self-righteous, these characters are quick to pontificate about their holier than thou credentials.
Of course, plastering one’s roof with solar panels is all about saving the planet; and has nothing to do with bleeding their neighbours dry – the ones without panels who are forced to pay exorbitant electricity prices to prop up the insanely generous Feed-in-Tariffs paid to those with their roofs plastered in panels.
...Now, it turns out, that all those shiny, ‘planet-saving’ solar panels have a much darker and menacing origin.
No, it’s about very cheap wages.
So cheap in fact, apparently no money changes hands between the ‘employer’ and ‘employee’, at all.
We’ll hand over to JoNova for a few troubling facts that just might just rattle the solar panel owner’s unique brand of smug"
...Indeed. Awkward news came out last month that “Nearly every solar power panel sold in the European Union has its origins in China’s oppressed Xinjiang region.”
Fears over China’s Muslim forced labor loom over EU solar power-Politico
Panels include components produced in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, where there are concerns about forced labour camps for Muslim minorities, including Uighurs.
The solar industry and Brussels lawmakers argue Europe’s renewable energy push should not come at a human cost amid long-standing international concern over reports China has detained 1 million people with Muslim backgrounds in camps in Xinjiang and is putting them to work.
Solar power uses slaves from every side....Read all.
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