Exactly. They’re giving up on green energy production and turning their focus to population control. That does not give me the warm fuzzies.
Another ridiculous assertion they made was that the planet has no more room for agricultural activity and food production.
This was absurd. Agriculture becomes more efficient every year and we can feed ourselves with no problem.
I do give them some points on the ethanol mess causing the deforestation of the rain forest. Ethanol from food stock is not a good idea and it suffers from the same inefficiencies as many other “green” solutions they have offered with subsidies and big money interest being involved.
The biomass thing was another area where I will give the film some points for accuracy in terms of efficiency or costs per Kw hour. However, living in the northwest we have very unhealthy forests that need to be thinned and managed because each summer we have wildfires that are quite simply awful. Too much smoke and too much destruction of our eco-system in our unhealthy forest, which are primarily feeding the pine beetles.
Ironically, most of the forest management types with the Forest Service and BLM have been recommending controlled burns, thinning, and other common sense management practices for years to 1) make the forests more healthy and 2) lower the risks of catastrophic mega-fires like the ones we witness every year.
I think chipping the wood up and fertilizing the forests is generally the more realistic (and beneficial) option, but in those areas where the wood is plentiful from forest management if they can make electricity have at it with no subsidies. If biomass does not pay for itself we should not do it.