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“Damn Dirty Humans!”: ‘Planet of the Humans’ and Progressive Denial

From gods and radicals, by John Halstead.

Transitioning to renewable energy will not save us.

That is the underlying message of Michael Moore’s new film, Planet of the Humans, which was just released on Earth Day. (You can watch it for free on YouTube.) At it’s most basic, our problem is that we have an infinite growth economy on a finite material planet. That problem will not be solved by transitioning to solar and wind without a drastic reduction in human consumption.

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