https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/05/10/use-solar-power-kill-a-tortoise-climate-change-solution-carries-environmental-costs/

Turn on your toaster, bulldoze a Joshua tree. Flip a light switch, feed an endangered tortoise to a badger.

Solar power, widely seen as humanity’s best hope for avoiding catastrophic climate change, can carry a heavy environmental cost, depending on where panels and transmission lines are built.