This documentary exposes and explains false beliefs about environmental virtues. It does so with help from advocates of those virtues (Suzuki and Jacobson). In the process, it provides some surprising facts. For example, wind turbines kill birds not by striking them but by creating pressure differences in the air that are great enough to explode the lungs of birds that fly through that air. The general lesson is that the mere conversion of energy production from fossil fuels to supposedly renewable sources would do far too little good to save life on Earth.
So far, so good. It is helpful to question widely held beliefs.
But the implications are only hinted at. They seem to include a conclusion that life is doomed unless human beings abolish cities, eliminate electricity, stop manufacturing things (including medicines), and cease planting seeds in the earth. How to do that is left unsaid. Maybe by decreasing the human population, but by how much, and how fast? How could people be taught to feed, clothe, house, and heal themselves in new (i.e., old) non-destructive ways? We are left to guess.
So far, so good. It is helpful to question widely held beliefs.
But the implications are only hinted at. They seem to include a conclusion that life is doomed unless human beings abolish cities, eliminate electricity, stop manufacturing things (including medicines), and cease planting seeds in the earth. How to do that is left unsaid. Maybe by decreasing the human population, but by how much, and how fast? How could people be taught to feed, clothe, house, and heal themselves in new (i.e., old) non-destructive ways? We are left to guess.