The film “Planet of Humans” depicts a settler culture decrying the destruction of a land it stole. It blames "carrying capacity," which is codeword for brown people need to stop having children, and overconsumption. My review: you first, pilgrim.
In all seriousness, Indigenous land defenders have been pointing out these problems for years. But they don't come to the same genocidal and cynical conclusions of mass die-offs. Elimination is settler colonialism’s go-to. If you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
How quickly a culture that consumes 30 times more than any other on the planet turns so easily to “carrying capacity," a universal “humanity," and "overpopulation" as *the* problem.
Imagine if northern enviros directed a fraction of vitriol against their own corporate, plundering settler nations as they do against Evo Morales and Global South countries taking a path of resource nationalism.
The film ends with the warning that a "human-caused apocalypse" is destroying the planet, and that “we" need to act. [The final scene is brown people cutting down trees.]
