However somberly and imperfectly, Gibbs may as well be helping us to traverse an unavoidable but ultimately necessary dark valley—one where we are reminded of how, before any blink of light, we must first confess and turn away from our pathological complicity with the decimation of our sacred Home. Copyright © 2020 Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere. Go on Google Images and take a look at any mining operation today if you’re skeptical about what the movie shows. Content on this site is subject to our The spotlight falls elsewhere. The movie’s nod to curbing consumption has been more positively received, which is also unsurprising since it’s the most socially palatable aspect of degrowth. . But first a sketch of the film and its criticism.
His political support is for the Democratic Party. Then, and only then, will any light shine like the dawn.
Yes, is takes stuff to make stuff, they say – so what, we all know that! The film, Planet of the Humans, was released on the eve of Earth Day last week by its producer, Michael Moore, the baseball cap-wearing documentarian known for … . And it’s the 300-year-old, now-taken-for-granted story of our increasingly urbanized, Techno-Industrial Age: namely, that we are the captains of our souls and the masters of our fates, and that we attain that fate through technology, production, and consumption.In short, this societal narrative (including many ‘green’ versions of such narrative) has made us believe that we are above, front-and-center, while everything else is below, in the backstage. The steel that modern, high-tech wind turbines are made out of require temperatures of around 1,800C) to produce metallurgical coal, one of steel’s key ingredients. Push-back from the mainstream environmental community was to be expected, but what perhaps wasn’t – with some exceptions – is the hostility and lack of nuanced, substantive response that’s sadly become a staple of societal discourse. He recently published A Climate of Desire: Reconsidering Sex, Christianity, and How We Respond to Climate Change This sort of information must keep going on, even more, while it is nowadays officially being blocked in the USA.Resilience is a program of Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable, resilient communities. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”Not unlike Einstein’s summons, Planet of the Humans is at least spot on about the need to turn away from our technocentric story and all its delusions that have claimed to give us full control. One ton of radioactive waste is produced for every ton of mined rare earth metals, which are now essential components in the latest generation of wind turbines. Credit: Planet of the Humans Last updated: April 27, 2020.
Donate today to Friends of the Reporter. When writers take that approach, you know there’s already blood in the water. Then there’s the problem of end-of-life waste. There are a handful of researchers who view renewable energy and sustainability within a more holistic framework, but they’re hard time to find. We’ll innovate and become more efficient. While biomass used at the it is today isn’t sustainable by any means, the fact remains that it’s our central source of renewable energy and material, as it was for all of time up until the Industrial Age. Eduardo Sasso is a business sustainability consultant and co-founder of Earthkeepers. While I agree with Richard Heinberg that the treatment of Jeremy Grantham was misleadingly monolithic, the central point desperately needed exposure.As to the final critique of other reviewers about the lack of inclusion of scientists, engineers, or other experts, this is a legitimate point to raise, but like other topics in the movie, it’s tricky. Almost two tons of CO2 are generated for every ton of steel, and every ton of concrete generates a ton of CO2. It is backed and promoted by Michael Moore, who served as the executive producer. (Deism is a modern distortion of ancient Christianity, presenting us with a deity that’s detached from the world, which is then purportedly left for us to control as we discover and master its immutable laws. Quibbling about whether a solar panel lasts 10 years or 30, or is 8% or 20% efficient, is irrelevant within this larger context. As its filmmakers anticipated, the new movie Planet of the Humans is generating quite the controversy. In their reactionary attempts to hurl divisive labels and empty punches, many reviews seem to be missing the key underlying point of the film. Full Review Top Critic The information is outdated / solar panel efficiency and life span continue to increaseSolar and wind are still less environmentally impactful than fossil fuelsWe can innovate our way out of material and manufacturing conundrums There’s no reason electric cars can’t be charged entirely by solar and windWe can recycle solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries in a closed-loop systemThe filmmakers didn’t interview credible scientists, engineers, or expertsThese critiques miss one of the two underlying points of the movie, which is that solar panels, high-tech wind turbines, and batteries are not sustainable. (She has since watched the film and written an actual review. )Could this be, perhaps, one of the film’s greatest contributions: its invitation to mourn, to leave us with discomfort towards superficial solutions, to invite us to feel and experience grief?