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You might have already read the reviews on Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans, an apocalyptic film that dismisses all technological efforts to address climate change as corporate greenwashing, advocating instead for degrowth and population control. But this isn't an isolated narrative — it points to a rupture that has long prevailed in the environmental movement. In reality, decarbonization will be neither small nor beautiful, and acknowledging that now will help us move forward on climate solutions.

Many critics have complained that Moore and the film’s director, Jeff Gibbs, were non-experts who came to the subject as novices and made a hash of it. But why wouldn’t they have? Having been told that catastrophe would ensue if we didn’t shift the entire planet to renewable energy, and only renewable energy, within a decade or so, Moore and Gibbs took a hard look at the current state of renewable energy and concluded that harsher measures would be necessary. Having spent careers promulgating exactly the sort of left-wing critiques that the environmental movement has long promoted, why would anyone be surprised that they took a hard look at the environmental movement and the renewables industry and saw conspiracy?
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How can we safely reopen? Testing, Tracing, and Supported Isolation.

We're excited to sign on to a report from the Harvard Center for Ethics. It's a clear, four-phase roadmap for opening the economy by summer, including steps that make us more pandemic-resilient for generations to come. Join us in a webinar to talk through the report with the authors tomorrow (Thursday) at 8:30am PT / 11:30am ET, featuring Danielle Allen, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Ted Nordhaus, moderated by David Wallace-Wells. You can also join us on Twitter during the event by following #HowWeReopen.
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