My wife and I saw the documentary film "Unearth" today.

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Unearth

It played at the Princeton Garden Theater; admission was fee; it was well attended, a production of the Princeton Library. The price was free for members of the theater and perhaps everyone else

Two salmon fishermen brothers, their livelihood threatened by a proposed gold/copper/molybdenum mine set out to tour major mining areas mostly in the American and Canadian west.

They are and their native neighbors are portrayed as the "good guys" as they set out from Alaska to view major mines all over the Western United States.

The subtext is that the mining companies want to be seen as good guys because they're making the "energy transition" possible.

(I contend that there is no "energy transition," but that's me.)

The movie is moving; I wept in places.

There was a lot of discussion by the mining companies about how important they are too green energy.

During Q&A with the director of the film John Hunter Nolan, and producer Eyal Levy, I asked the question nobody wanted to hear, which was "Is 'green energy' really 'green.'" ''

I had a nice chat with the wife of a Rutgers Professor on the topic of nuclear energy.

And I got to talk about the PJM grid and what I found out when writing this post about the carbon impact of electric cars charged on the grid: A paper addressing the idea that electric cars are "green."

I recommend this film, because the Strickland brothers tour mines in British Columbia, attend a mining conference in Vancouver, travel to the mining town of Butte Montana, the Kennecott mine in Utah, and copper mines in Arizona. They let you know the results on the people there.

As for me; I don't agree we're going to mine our way out of extreme global heating into which we mined our way (oil, gas, coal).

If you can see the film, do so. If nothing else, it will inspire questions, and ask you to think about about how you live.