The new film produced by Michael Moore, Planet Of The Humans, challenges how we think of going Green. Seriously, how do we get off fossil fuels? Do we have the slightest idea of what this involves and implies? Do we cut down forests to burn chipped wood as a biomass substitute for coal and gas? How is Green infrastructure built and maintained without fossil fuels? The answer is that it’s not. And then what? Discuss this on the smart phone and laptop full of rare metals gouged from the earth?
This film very dramatically makes the case that we are babies prattling about collective suicide. And that there is a whole lot of disaster capitalism promoting delusional solutions.
What will it take for citizenry to grok the crisis of sustainability? People do not realize that the entire basis of modern living is unsustainable. And this is the problem. We can’t go there. We can’t admit that the planet can not possibly continue to support a consumer based lifestyle for a fraction of the present world population, which is increasingly concentrated in mega cities of 10 million or more.
The modern city is entropic. And so are the suburbs. Both only exist because of fossil fuel- energy as concentrated capital, and which serves to destroy a living bond with Nature. There is no way for a modern city to go Green. There is no way for a world economy based on globalism to go Green. There is no way for any living arrangement to go Green except on a decentralized basis. Only local economies can establish a sustainable relationship with Nature, a relationship not based on relentless resource extraction and degradation, but on living in harmony with the land and one another.
Going Green is going cold turkey.
I saw Planet of the Humans a few days ago. I grew up in and recently returned to my hometown Saginaw MI, it is 25 miles from Flint (Micheal Moore’s hometown) and 90 miles from Detroit. Michael and I are about the same age, friends worked on his first project The Flint Journal. So we witnessed the same destruction 0f of our towns, environment , economies and fabric of life by mindless Capitalism. Detroit is the canary in the coal mine. If Detroit, once the jewel of progress can be reduced to what it is today, then WAKE UP out… Read more »
Let’s see what flattening the curve means; it could mean flattening 3/4s of the world.