RE: Isn't it a little scary how we take what the "authorities" tell us for granted as being the truth even in the face of catching them frequently in lies... Can we break the conditioning?

To make those panels you must first mine and in some cases strip mine a lot of land and produce a lot of CO2 and other byproducts in the process. They count on people think solar panels magically appear. While they are very cool they are nowhere as GREEN as they make them out to be.