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Sustainable energy is sometimes derided because it still has "impacts"; it isn't perfectly "clean".
This argument is a straw man (nobody is claiming that it is perfectly clean), a mis-framing of the issue as being about "cleanness" rather than sustainability, and moving the goalposts to infinity (there is no human activity that is perfectly clean, that has no environmental impacts).
It is true on the face of it, of course -- any method of energy generation is going to have some impact if multiplied by the energy needs of enough people -- but some methods have far less impact than others.