Green World Rising is the third film in the Green World Rising series. The film shows how we can be 100% off fossil fuels in a few decades. Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, presented by Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners and produced by George DiCaprio, Mathew Schmid, Earl Katz and Roee Sharon Peled. Music composed and performed by Jean-Pascal Beintus. Created by Tree Media with the support of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
Beyond the rhetoric of the first film, I find this series becoming more compelling and persuasive. We have the technology now to rely on clean, sustainable energy sources to power our lives, industries and cities. Moreover, it makes more economic sense to do so, than to stick with fossil fuels, according to the experts speaking in the film. No doubt, however, making this transition will mean a forthright creative destruction à la Joseph Schumpeter. Those in the petroleum business and those from petroleum exporting countries face the prospects of losing their very life blood. The shift away from the so-called black gold underground may indeed be inevitable, so we can expect them to keep fighting, to undermine green efforts, and to stay that destruction as long as possible.
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