A Synecologist's view of the film Planet of the Humans
Channel: If life is a leaf
Date: 17/05/2020

Planet of the Humans was released to a lot of fanfare, and immediately garnered a tonne of criticism from the Left, and was used shamelessly by the right to declare renewable energy a fraud. I wanted to do a little sorting of the seeds from the chaff.


Planet of the Humans ; Michael Moore's channel: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE

Planet of the Humans: Lets Just have a think;  
Channel is "Just have a think": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmNjLHRAP2U

Limits to Growth: 
 Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III, (1972) *_Limits to Growth_*, https://clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/ - free download.


Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/charts

Info on impact of a plant based diet on arable land:
Poore et al., (2018) "Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers", *_Science_* 360, pps 987–992 .
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/360/6392/987.full.pdf?ijkey=ffyeW1F0oSl6k&keytype=ref&siteid=sci - free download