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Planet of the Humans (part 2): Bill McKibben and 350.org

Posted on 29 May 202030 May 2020

By Chris Lang The documentary Planet of the Humans continues to raise controversy. This week, YouTube took down the documentary in response to a copyright infringement claim by Toby Smith, a British photographer. The offending four-second clip comes in a sequence titled “How Solar Panels & Wind Turbines Are Made” and shows a rare earth…

Planet of the Humans (part 1): Blood and Gore

Posted on 29 April 202028 May 2020

By Chris Lang The new documentary Planet of the Humans is, like anything Michael Moore gets involved with, deliberately controversial. This one attacks renewable energy, some parts of the green movement, and decides that over-population is the problem. Moore released the film on his YouTube channel on the 50th Earth Day. In a week it’s…

“Quite simply the input is cash from us to plant the forests and the output is carbon credits from the trees, which we can then trade. It involves a lot of land… A forest could have a very long life and so companies could sign up to buy carbon offsets from us for 30 years. Effectively, we can securitise the carbon, allowing companies and governments to buy into it to offset their emissions on a long-term basis… If we get this business right, it will be huge.”

— Vincent Tchenguiz, property entrepreneur, September 2007 (2011: Tchenguiz was arrested in a probe into the 2008 collapse of Kaupthing, an Icelandic bank)