Do some critical reading on your own.

freed up 90 million acres... how much of that was consumed by wal-mart parking lots and 6 lane highways?

Electricity replaced wood and fossil fuels? Yes. I guess if you look at the solar/wind sources of electricity. The non solar/wind electricity is either nuclear or fossil fuel powered.

Oh and sorry, natural gas is a fossil fuel.

These are some big problems for a little article.

Opinion: Now that we have a true global economy, we need to be aware of a global environment. Lets all work together to share what we have already learned about the latent cost of economic expansion.