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by bamboozled 1281 days ago
This seems like a bit of hyperbole I'm sorry.

Due to a shrinking population in Japan, there are a lot of left over farms (which are quite flat) being converted to solar farms, it's quite surprising how much solar you see in Japan nowadays.

There are also old mountains (which have been decimated from mining) being covered in Solar panels on their south facing side, these are rock faces so not really prone to intense land slippage. I can't think of a better use for them right now.

Yes Japan has a lot of eathquakes etc, but I don't think this means you can't build solar farms.

Yes, there was a case where a landslip killed a lot of people due to an illegally installed solar farm in a slippage area? It doesn't mean solar was to blame though?

I don't really agree with your comments sorry.

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I myself don't strongly agree nor disagree with the individual arguments -- I'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject to form an opinion either for or against -- but the point was rather on the very strong hostile emotions displayed by the people posting them. It's like the hatred comes first and the individual arguments are brought up afterwards to justify it. I'm wondering where and why such negative sentiments come up.