W.Minh Tuan
Last year, 2022, the Japanese government issued a policy of high tax on solar power projects, to limit the development of these solar panels, for 1 reason:
Investors destroy forests and destroy trees to build solar panels, which both worsen the environment and destroy the beauty of nature.
If solar panels are installed on the roofs of houses, on walls, on the roofs of cars,,,,, they are welcome and encouraged, receive many incentives from the Japanese government, get tax reductions, bank loans with preferential interest rates, because it does not destroy the natural environment.
But destroying forests, destroying orchards, destroying fields to make solar power in Japan will now be banned, or imposed strict control policies on nature protection, on natural beauty protection.
Investors in solar power all over the world do not think much about protecting nature and protecting natural beauty, but only thinking about making a lot of money from solar power and wind power.
Many Chinese companies have come to Japan to buy vast tracts of forests, then destroy them to make solar power, and then sell solar power to the Japanese citizens and to Japanese companies.
At first, the Japanese did not understand anything, only seeing that there was solar power, CLEAN ENERGY, renewable energy, they hurriedly welcomed and encouraged.
But only after a few years, did Japanese see that it was stupid, “benefiting harm”, thousands of hectares of primitive forest as beautiful as in pictures, keeping the environment clean, wind blowing, birds chirping, streams murmuring, flowers bloom in four seasons, are now destroyed, replaced by inanimate glass, plastic, iron and steel panels.
Let’s try to imagine the mountains and forests of Perfume Pagoda in Vietnam with beautiful poetic and fairy-like scenes as follows:
“Tranquility through the apricot forest, birds offer fruit,
Hesitating in the stream, fish listen to sutras”,,,
in the poem of Chu Manh Trinh,
one day it will be destroyed to make solar power, to replace the inanimate scene as follows:
“Tranquility through steel climbing uphill,
Under the stream of glass, plastic is full”
what do we think?
Last year, I returned to Vietnam, visited Tay Ninh province, near the Cambodian border, and saw a field of thousands of trees that had been destroyed, and replaced by inanimate solar panels.
I find it really sad.
I told my Vietnam companions that in Japan, it is forbidden to do this work of deforestation and tree destruction to make solar power.
The Vietnamese friends in the group were surprised and asked me, “So the Japanese don’t want clean energy, renewable energy?”.
I said yes, the Japanese are working with other countries to develop clean energy, renewable energy, but not by destroying forests and destroying trees like that.
At that time, my Vietnamese friends noticed and took a closer look at this field of solar panels, under the solar panels there were only a few weeds growing faintly.
Weeds also cannot grow well because of the lack of sunlight.
Save nature, save the forest, save the orchard, save the fields, save the green of nature, save our future.