These actions are an endorsement of the status quo, and do not meet Mr. McKibben’s own standards for action.

The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible, The processor that makes your laptop or cell phone work was fabricated using quartz from this obscure Appalachian backwater: New evidence suggests that green growth isn’t the panacea everyone has been hoping for. In 2017, he Mr. McKibben’s subsequent op-ed, which came out after the premiere of the film at the Traverse City Film Festival, Eight-percent happened to be the efficiency of the solar panels we visited early in our exploration.

Gibbs also states that "We went to great pains to show you what's happening in the field of solar and wind. (Sad but true; especially in an age of ecological breakdown when we need to unite Still, could the film’s field-splitting call to choose sides, be the method to its madness? The loosely structured assemblage of damning information eventually proves more numbing than illuminating. Well, it's always valuable to re-examine a sacred cow.

And they may seem trivial should we continue to dismiss the divine and the transcendental as sheer social constructions that our human ancestors invented back in yesteryear to soothe our consciousness. But Planet of the Humans makes some valuable steps towards an actual reckoning of specious dogma. April 23, 2020 He recently published A Climate of Desire: Reconsidering Sex, Christianity, and How We Respond to Climate Change The work of this nonprofit is critical to moving forward and having positive impact.

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Just confirm how you got your ticket.Fandango (The plant was replaced by the 650MW natural gas facility filmed next door:It was a central “fight” of the Sierra Club – 200th coal plant closed:The Sun Doesn’t Always Shine, the Wind Doesn’t Always Blow — and the Fact Is, Intermittency Has Not Been Solved: “People whose whole work is built around promoting (and sometimes benefiting from) the eco-industrial complex have perhaps lost their way or are too afraid to tell you the truth.”According to a prominent proponent of renewable energy, The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, electrical grids will encounter disruption and higher integration costs if variable solar and wind technologies were ever to reach 30 percent penetration.Solar cells are typically expected to last 20-30 years, as is indicated in the scene “Damage Done” (Solar proponents claim that studies such as energy-return-on-investment (EROI) and lifecycle analyses can sometimes indicate that these solar plants use less fossil fuel overall, but upon closer examination, these studies don’t (and can’t) take into account the extremely long tail of industrial inputs and labor required. A feature-length made by an avowed environmentalist in 2020 could arm the public with information to work toward a better place along that spectrum...Gibbs doesn't have such critical democratic engagement in mind. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

Could its polarizing stance somehow serve Gibb’s insistence to untangle the ecological cause from the story of unceasing economic growth—even of so-called ‘green’ economic growth—that continues to dictate the north of our industrialized societies?Senior Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute and author of Read: Renewables? In doing this, Planet of the Humans … Content on this site is subject to our It’s also (to a considerable extent) polarizing, at times dismissing perhaps too easily the honest intentions of some well-meaning folk.

June 18, 2020 Planet of the Humans trades in the worst form of purity-test liberalism, where green-energy enthusiasts are hypocrites and anyone who supports them is really just in deep denial about the endemic intransigence of the fossil-fuel industry.