Those of us who’re contending with giant industrial solar proposals in undeveloped desert wilderness (see my website link for some discussion) are in fact seeing environmentalists dismiss biodiversity protection in favor of working to stabilize climate. It’s rather disheartening, and Brendan’s Slate piece, whatever its flaws may have been, was a salutary antidote to some of the “bighorn sheep and desert tortoises have to take one for the team” rhetoric we’ve been hearing from the larger mainstream environmental groups.