"A veritable cornucopia of false solutions is being pushed these days,
not only by corporations and think tanks but by the UN’s IPCC, the
international body responsible for research and action on climate. We
could have made a gentle transition if we had begun when we first became
aware of this problem decades ago, but for various reasons we did not.
There is no time left for barking up one wrong tree after another; no
time to waste in false solutions. Hence this series pointing out the
fallacies behind such proposals as electrifying everything, carbon
trading, geoengineering or switching to “gas—the clean energy fuel!”
I’ve divided the issue into sectors: electricity generation,
transportation, agriculture, buildings, and then there are two sections
on false solutions that aren’t part of an energy sector—geoengineering
schemes, and some other policy options. Finally, we look at real
solutions. I am not an expert on anything except maybe gardening, so my
hope is to spur discussion.
Part 3: The Agricultural Sector"
Read the excellent complete Resilience article
'Basically, Moore and his colleagues have made a film attacking
renewable energy as a sham and arguing that the environmental movement
is just a tool of corporations trying to make money off green energy.
“One of the most dangerous things right now is the illusion that
alternative technologies, like wind and solar, are somehow different
from fossil fuels,” Ozzie Zehner, one of the film’s producers, tells the
camera. When visiting a solar facility, he insists: “You use more
fossil fuels to do this than you’re getting benefit from it. You would
have been better off just burning the fossil fuels.”
That’s not true, not in the least — the time it takes for a solar
panel to pay back the energy used to build it is well under four years.
Since it lasts three decades, it means 90 percent of the power it
produces is pollution-free, compared with zero percent of the power from
burning fossil fuels. It turns out that pretty much everything else
about the movie was wrong — there have been at least 24 debunkings, many of them painfully rigorous; as one scientist wrote in a particularly scathing takedown, “Planet of the Humans is deeply useless. Watch anything else.” Moore’s fellow filmmaker Josh Fox, in an epic unraveling
of the film’s endless lies, got in one of the best shots: “Releasing
this on the eve of Earth Day’s 50th anniversary is like Bernie Sanders
endorsing Donald Trump while chugging hydroxychloroquine.” '
Read the Rolling Stone article
