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DESCRIPTION:Produced and promoted by Michael Moore, Planet of the Humans critiques the 
 mainstream climate change movement while proffering solutions of its own. 
 This recent movie on climate change has in turn precipitated both a defense 
 by some current climate activists as well as still more trenchant analyses 
 on the causes and solutions to global warming.\n\nThis program is at the 
 Marxist Library addresses, from a left perspective, themes raised in the 
 movie regarding climate change and its solutions. Our speakers represent 
 diverse backgrounds of technical competence.\n\n   Sandeep Agarwal is an 
 engineer with many years of working with the solar power and energy 
 storage. Sandeep will take a critical look at ideological basis of fiscal 
 policies like green new deal and carbon pricing which are being promoted to 
 accelerate global decarbonization.\n\n   Sharat G. Lin is a medical 
 physicist and political economist. Sharat will argue that the ongoing 
 transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy must not only make use of 
 every possible aspect of decarbonization, starting with the low-hanging 
 fruit and “bridge technologies,” but must drastically reduce non-fossil 
 greenhouse gas production through lifestyle changes mobilized through state 
 and institutional intervention.  We cannot automatically assume that small 
 is better or that socialism will solve the problem that capitalism has 
 created.\n\n   Roger Harrisis a biologist and a retired consultant, who has 
 worked assessing the environmental impacts of oil, gas, geothermal, 
 co-generation, electric, wind, and solar energy developments. Michael 
 Moore’s movie, pointing to the depleting finite resources on the planet, 
 blames human population growth as a fundamental cause of environmental 
 degradation. Roger will present the perspective that there may be too many 
 superrich people, but that the ideology of overpopulation is a 
 justification of unequal social relations and is not scientifically valid. 
 Climate justice suggests that we consider the “climate debt” that the 
 industrialized countries have as the main contributors to global 
 warming.\n\n   You need not have viewed Planet of the Humans to benefit 
 from joining us at this webinar. The one-hour and 40-minute movie, however, 
 can be viewed free at https://planetofthehumans.com/.\n\nFUND 
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SUMMARY:Planet of the Humans – Left Perspectives on Climate Solutions
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/27/18834668.php
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