Why do we burn coal and trees to make solar panels? Because that's how they're made.

Workman shovels coal and ore into a silicon smelter in China

Solar panels are made from coal, tar sands coke, burnt rainforest trees, and a lot of non-renewable energy from other fossil fuels and uranium. So why are they called a "clean, carbon free" energy source? Why is the solar industry receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to produce a worthless technology that only increases non-renewable resource consumption and pollution?

In marketing terms, it's called "greenwashing."
In legal terms, it's called "fraudulent misrepresentation" or "deceptive advertising."
In plain English it's called "lying, for huge profits."

Read how solar panels are actually made from the ground (literally) up:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335083312_Why_do_we_burn_coal_and_trees_to_make_solar_panels