Essential viewing tonight on PBS......Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

[marmar]

Program: Journey to Planet Earth
Episode: Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization


"Plan B" provides a glimpse into a new and emerging economy based upon renewable resources as well as strategies to avoid the growing threat of climate change. As prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about carbon emissions cast a shadow over the future of fossil fuels, wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing fossil fuels at a pace and on a scale previously unimagined.


http://video.pbs.org/video/1694551707/#

[snappyturtle]

1. My local PBS channel in CHicago, channel 11, will carry this at 10:00pm.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. The trailer looked interesting.

[marmar]

2. Yep. 10 p.m. tonight on the Detroit affiliate too.

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[Arkansas Granny]

3. Thanks for the heads up. I checked the schedule and my local PBS station

is carrying this tonight, also.

[crickets]

4. Both of my local PBS stations are running this.

Thanks for letting us know about it.

[elocs]

5. Anyone not living in a fantasyland and who is in touch with the world as it exists

and not as they wish it might must understand that climate change will not be stopped. Hell, we are not even preparing to deal with the consequences of climate change.

There are billions of people in developing nations who want everything we have had here in the West for decades: the cars, the goodies, the whole nine yards. I don't see them wanting to change their current lifestyle because of climate change. They want what they want and they want it now.

There are millions and millions of people right here in the U.S. who do not believe in climate change and they will do everything possible to stop any money being spent on anything having to do with climate change. They control entire states, including mine here in WI, as well as the U.S. House of Representatives. We cannot force them to do anything. Certainly circumstances may eventually make them wish they had done something, but by then it will be too late.

So although climate change and its consequences make for great documentaries I don't see any global mobilization to combat it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Hopefully it will appear on line in a short while.

For us tv-free folk.

[kristopher]

7. Thanks. K&R

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. replacing fossil fuels at a pace and on a scale previously unimagined.

By whom? I, for one, imagined we would be WAY beyond where we are 30 years ago.

And we would have been had the oil companies not been running the country for the past 30 years.