https://www.newsweek.com/michael-moore-planet-humans-film-climate-change-1502554
By MICHAEL E. MANN
File this one under the category of “with friends like this”: None other than liberal icon Michael Moore has now joined the ranks of the renewable energy-bashers. Working with Director Jeff Gibbs, his long-time collaborator on left-of-center polemics like the anti-NRA Bowling for Columbine and anti-Bush/Iraq War “Fahrenheit 9/11” Moore has, in his new film “Planet of the Humans” (“POTH”) promoted a full-on assault on renewable energy. Though Gibbs directed the doc, Moore put the full weight of his celebrity into the project, doing the talk show circuit, and flacking the film like next month’s rent depended on it. Make no mistake: This is a Michael Moore film and Moore’s reputational wagon is firmly hitched to it.
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So he ended up posting it for free on Youtube on Earth Day as if his intention was to launch a hand grenade that would produce maximum collateral damage to action on climate.
While numerous other commentaries having now exposed the critical flaws in the film, a mostly overlooked aspect of the film is the way it so perfectly plays into a larger agenda underway aimed at forestalling action on climate.
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So heroes become villains and villains, ironically, become heroes. Climate champion Bill McKibben is vilified for having once, long ago, supported the limited use of biomass energy. Al Gore is attacked for supposedly being “more focused on cashing in than saving the planet” (couldn’t a similar argument be made about Michael Moore and his $50 million net worth?). Moore and Gibbs were apparently “shocked to find a company owned by Charles and David Koch receiving solar tax credits”. Now, there are many reasons to dislike the Koch Brothers—but the fact that they invested in solar energy is not one of them. Only in the Trumpian era of gaslighting could a progressive filmmaker produce a polemic premised on the absurd notion that ultra-right-wing plutocrats are secretly behind the effort to end our dependence on fossil fuels. And get progressives to actually fall for it.
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Writing for Films for Action, award-winning long-time environmental filmmaker Neal Livingston is even harsher: “SHAME on these filmmakers for making a film like this, full of misinformation and disinformation, to intentionally depress audiences, and make them think there are no alternatives…Let me make it absolutely clear that the new documentary, Planet of the Humans, by Jeff Gibbs — with executive producer Michael Moore, is inaccurate, misleading and designed to depress you into doing nothing.” Doomism and the loss of hope can lead people down the very same path of inaction as outright denial. The forces of inaction don’t care about the path you take, just the destination. And they love this sort of framing.
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Environmental author Ketan Joshi remarks that Moore “ends up at population control – a cruel, evil and racist ideology that you can see coming right from the start of the film, while Earther’s Brian Kahn notes “Over the course of the movie, [Gibbs] interviews a cast of mostly white experts who are mostly men to make that case…”
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Other fossil fuel industry shills, like Marc Morano of CFACT promoted the film and attacked its critics on social media. A feeding frenzy was manufactured on twitter thanks to the massive army of Trollbots doing the same, released perhaps by bad state actors known for this prevalent modus operandi in the New Climate War.
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What we do know is that their misguided polemic furthers the agenda of fossil fuel interests and their tactic of denial, delay, distraction and deflection by feeding misleading and false narratives about renewable energy. Moore and Gibbs are setting back the cause of societal and economic decarbonization this is so critical to averting catastrophic planetary warming. Unless they do a dramatic about face, they will go down in history as having sided with wealthy, powerful polluters, rather than “the people” they purport to care about, in the defining battle of our time.
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“The only reason we’ve been force-fed the story ‘climate change plus renewables equals we’re saved’ is because billionaires, bankers and corporations profit from it,” Mr. Gibbs said in the 100-minute film.”
Note: Moore’s Film is currently — as of Friday afternoon ET time — still available on YouTube, but I am getting reports that other social media is not allowing it to be shown.
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We visit a “solar powered” music festival where we discover that behind the scenes it is largely powered by diesel generators. We visit an ethanol plant — whose wood has to be harvested using fossil-fuel powered equipment and depends for its operational effectiveness on coal. We visit a lovely old wood beloved by hikers and nature lovers in rural Vermont being trashed to build a wind farm. We see 500-year old yuccas in the Mojave desert being torn up and shredded by diggers to make way for a “clean” energy solar plant. “It was enough to make my head explode,” Gibbs confesses at one point. “Green energy is not going to save us.” …
Gibbs follows the money trail and discovers — quelle surprise! — that the people and organizations most assiduously stoking the war on fossil fuels and most aggressively promoting “renewables” as an alternative are invariably the ones who stand to benefit most financially.
Among the Hall of Shame: Canadian activist Bill McKibben; Al Gore; Van Jones; Robert F Kennedy Jr; Jeremy Grantham; Michael Bloomberg; Richard Branson.
These are revealed to have an unhealthily cozy relationship with green NGOs like the Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy, which mouth the usual environmental pieties while yet quietly promoting energy which is every bit as environmentally destructive as fossil fuels.
Directed by environmentalist Jeff Gibbs, the film examines the crony capitalism, corruption and outright deceit and fraud being perpetrated by green energy billionaires, politicians and their spokespeople, like Bill McKibben who is prominently featured. …
The film presents so many examples of green energy fraud and folly: e.g. the insanely low output of wind and sun, corporate green washing, more fossil fuels being burned to prop up green energy systems, false promises of green energy being free and free and clean, all the toxic waste they produce, the mass destruction on precious biotopes, the solar panels are made of sand, biomass is clean and sustainable, to name a few. …
Renowned figures like Al Gore and Bill McKibben and Sierra Club – once revered as environmental heroes – suddenly now come across as swindling villains.
In Lansing Michigan, tonnes of concrete and steel were installed to support a football-field size solar panel system that can supply energy for whole 10 homes for a year. In 20 years it’ll be a field of litter, a monument among many of the Gore’s green energy folly. …
Also in Vermont hectares of mountain forest were removed as the entire Lowell Mountain ridge was blasted to make way for thousands of tonnes of steel and concrete and 21 monster wind turbines which show up for work only one day a week on average. Gibbs says he is supporter of green energy, but painfully had to admit: “Everywhere I encountered green energy, it wasn’t what it seemed.” The many green energy examples he presents in fact cannot operate without traditional energy sources. “Green energies are not even replacing fossil fuels.”
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Gibbs interviews a scientist who researched corporate renewables programs who said, “I haven’t found a single entity anywhere in the world running on 100% solar and wind alone.” The film shows a forest being cut down to build an Apple solar farm. …
Moore still buys into the whole apocalyptic anthropogenic climate change shtick. Even the dangerously wrong Wuhan virus models haven’t taught him that climate change models might be wrong, too. Climate change is a faith, and one doesn’t question the dogma. Rather than becoming a climate change apostate, Moore has come up with a new solution. If we can’t cut down on pollution, we just have to cut down on humans: A better approach, Gibbs suggests, would be people having fewer children. “Infinite growth on a finite planet is suicide,” he says.
Michael Shellenberger: “In truth, humankind has never been at risk of running out of energy. There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is effectively infinite.”
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A new documentary, “Planet of the Humans,” being released free to the public on YouTube today, the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, reveals that industrial wind farms, solar farms, biomass, and biofuels are wrecking natural environments.
“Planet of the Humans was produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore. “I assumed solar panels would last forever,” Moore told Reuters. “I didn’t know what went into the making of them.”
The film shows both abandoned industrial wind and solar farms and new ones being built — but after cutting down forests. “It suddenly dawned on me what we were looking at was a solar dead zone,” says filmmaker Jeff Gibbs, staring at a former solar farm in California. “I learned that the solar panels don’t last.” …
“Planet of the Humans” notes that Al Gore personally accepted fossil fuel money in 2013 when he and a co-owner sold Current TV to Al Jazeera, which is state-funded by Qatar, the gas-exporting nation whose citizens have the largest per capita carbon footprint in the world. One year earlier, Gore had said the goal of “reducing our dependence on expensive dirty oil” was “to save the future of civilization.” The film shows Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” asking Gore, “You couldn’t find, for your business, a more sustainable choice?” “What is not sustainable about it?” responded Gore. “Because it is backed by fossil fuel money?” said Stewart
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Quotes from Moore’s new documentary:
“The reason we’re not talking about over-population, consumption and the suicide of economic growth, is that would be bad for business – especially, the CANCEROUS FORM OF CAPITALISM that rules the world, now HIDING UNDER A COVER OF GREEN.” (Gore, Sierra Club, Bloomberg, etc.)
“We must take control of our environmental movement and our future from billionaires and their permanent war on Planet Earth. They are not our friends.”
Ultimately, it’s NOT CARBON, but “EVERYTHING WE HUMANS ARE DOING” that is bringing about the “human-caused apocalypse,” the film concludes.
“Have you ever wondered what would happen if a single species took over an entire planet?” “Maybe, they’re cute. Maybe, they’re clever – but, lack a certain, shall we say, self-restraint. What if they go too far? What if they go way, way, way, way, way too far? How would they know when it’s THEIR TIME TO GO?”
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He explains why wind and solar power, electric vehicles, ethanol, biomass and biofuels cannot exist without fossil fuel energy and are environmentally destructive.
Wind turbines eat up arable land, level mountain top forests, require massive amounts of concrete, steel, fibreglass and balsam to construct, fall apart after 20 years and have to be backed up by fossil fuel energy because they only provide intermittent power to the electricity grid.
Ditto solar power, where panels are made by mining quartz and coal and fusing them, requiring the use of fossil fuel energy, which then has to be backed up by fossil fuel-powered electricity plants, making those plants operate less efficiently.
Electric cars, wind turbines and solar panels require the mining of rare earth metals, involving some of “the most toxic and industrial processes that we’ve ever created.”
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Climate skeptics praise Michael Moore’s new documentary exposing green energy
By Steven W. Mosher’s review of “Planet of the Humans”: “By the midpoint of the movie, Moore has already revealed that each and every form of green energy is a fraud, surviving on popular naivete, government subsidies and the products of industrial civilization. … If he were to have stopped there, his sins against his fellow eco-leftists might one day be forgiven. But he doesn’t, instead going on to argue that the fraud extends to the very top of the green-energy movement itself.
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Then he moves on to the big boys. He exposes the massive funding that the Sierra Club, 350 and other environmental groups receive from the energy industry, and exposes the connections between leading environmentalists like Al Gore and Wall Street financiers. …
If you do tune in, bear in mind that Moore is no friend of free markets or individual liberty. His “solution” to reducing humanity’s use of energy is a throwback to twentieth-century population control.”
