A MUST READ! Wow, the renewable light bulb of “great idea” over Michael Moore’s head just burned out. He’s trashing renewables in this new film Planet of the Humans.
On the 50th anniversary of EarthDay, the irony meter is pegged. It’s an epic take-down of the left’s love-affair with renewables by one of the left’s most known public figures. Full video follows. h/t to Dennis Wingo.
Via Forbes writer Michael Shellenberger
New Michael Moore-Backed Documentary On YouTube Reveals Massive Ecological Impacts Of Renewables
Over the last 10 years, everyone from celebrity influencers including Elon Musk, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Al Gore, to major technology brands including Apple, have repeatedly claimed that renewables like solar panels and wind farms are less polluting than fossil fuels.
But 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.”
Like many environmental documentaries, “Planet of Humans” endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy. “We have to have our ability to consume reigned in,” says a well-coiffed environmental leader. “Without some major die-off of the human population there is no turning back,” says a scientist.
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The film unearths a great deal of information I had never seen before. It shows Apple’s head of sustainability, former EPA head Lisa Jackson, claiming on-stage at an Apple event, “We now run Apple on 100% renewable energy,” to loud applause.
But 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.
After Earth Day Founder Denis Hayes claims at a 2015 Earth Day concert that the event was being powered by solar, Gibbs goes behind the stage to find out the truth. “The concert is run by a diesel generation system,” the solar vendor said. “That right there could run a toaster,” said another vendor.
The film also debunks the claim made by Elon Musk that his “Gigafactory” to make batteries is powered by renewables. In fact, it is hooked up to the electric grid.
“Some solar panels are built to only last 10 years,” said a man selling materials for solar manufacturing at a corporate expo. “It’s not like you get this magic free energy. I don’t know that it’s the solution and here I am selling the materials that go in photovoltaics.”
“What powers a learning community?” said [Bill] MicKibben at the unveiling of a wood-burning power plant at Middlebury College in Vermont. “As of this afternoon, the easy answer to this is wood chips. It’s incredibly beautiful to look at the bunker of wood chips. Anything that burns we can throw in there! This shows that this could happen everywhere, should happen everywhere, and must happen everywhere!”
The film reveals that McKibben and Sierra Club supported a Michigan ballot initiative that would have required the state get 25% of its electricity from renewables by 2025, and that the initiative was backed by biomass industrial interests, and that efforts to build a biomass plant at Michigan State University were hotly opposed by climate activists — including ones from 350.org.
Read the full article here
The film:
The film description says:
Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road — selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America.
This film is the wake-up call to the reality we are afraid to face: that in the midst of a human-caused extinction event, the environmental movement’s answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids. It’s too little, too late. Removed from the debate is the only thing that MIGHT save us: getting a grip on our out-of-control human presence and consumption.
Why is this not THE issue? Because that would be bad for profits, bad for business. Have we environmentalists fallen for illusions, “green” illusions, that are anything but green, because we’re scared that this is the end—and we’ve pinned all our hopes on biomass, wind turbines, and electric cars? No amount of batteries are going to save us, warns director Jeff Gibbs (lifelong environmentalist and co-producer of “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Bowling for Columbine”).
This urgent, must-see movie, a full-frontal assault on our sacred cows, is guaranteed to generate anger, debate, and, hopefully, a willingness to see our survival in a new way—before it’s too late.
Featuring: Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Richard Branson, Robert F Kennedy Jr., Michael Bloomberg, Van Jones, Vinod Khosla, Koch Brothers, Vandana Shiva, General Motors, 350.org, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Nature Conservancy, Elon Musk, Tesla.
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Ab Man
Excellent post!!
Liberals like Michael Moore always want to go with the “Pol Pot Solution” before *gasp* Nuclear Power, not realizing they would be the first to die.
It’s like young people that want “free healthcare”, not realizing that 1) they don’t currently pay for old people’s healthcare or 2)THEY would be the one’s paying for old people’s healthcare.
We have a name for people like this…. “Idiots”.
UNGN … at 5:30 am
Liberals like Michael Moore always want to go with the “Pol Pot Solution” before *gasp* Nuclear Power,
Nuclear was mentioned once in passing I expect that the next release will edit that small blip out.
Actually young people do pay for old people’s health care in the form of FICA taxes. Old people were on the ground floor of the Medicare pyramid scheme. They now just want the ground floor, … of the pyramid, … for everyone.
Michael Moore doesn’t know what he believes other than promoting his movies. His “thinking” (if you can call it that) is frequently muddled as a result of his economic illiteracy, innumeracy and poor education.
Anybody who pals around with the nutcase Bill McKibben is woefully ignorant.
Michael Moore is a predator.
And Humans are the top predator, and that’s why there is no doubt, it’s a human planet.
Well, other than the microbial life, which actually dominates the planet. And human can’t
exist without them, so we will take them, where ever we go in this universe.
Shocking news from Virologist
https://truepundit.com/exclusive-top-scientist-disturbing-details-of-threats-research-theft-tainted-vaccines-fraud-cover-ups-pay-to-play/
Moore trashes Green energy — very well. But he still promotes “population reduction”. Sounds like he may be part of Gates’ crowd.
Moore should have known long ago. He only released the movie now, when the jig is up.
Timing is everything.
The Obsession with CO2 reduction has blinded well-intentioned people to what works to improve the environment:
Identifying & reducing point source pollution.
The United States has done a tremendous job at identifying & reducing point source pollution.
Reducing point source pollution is quantifiable (measurable). It is based on scientific principles of observation & measurement. Laboratory experiments with controlled variables can be conducted.
Cost/benefit analysis of point source pollution reduction can be realistically performed.
Point source pollution reduction does not take a cult-like following which rejects the basic scientific principle: reasonable skepticism.
Responsible hydrocarbon use with appropriate care for point source pollution is the appropriate environmental response.
Hydrocarbons… oil & gas… are, in fact, the most environmentally friendly energy sources. Even coal with appropriate scrubbers can be environmentally friendly, believe it or not.
The obsession with CO2 reduction has hijacked the environmental movement.
It has set back an idea, having a clean environment, by alienating many people who, otherwise, would be open to tackling & reducing identifiable point source pollution.
Example: many conservatives are also conservationists. Why, because many conservatives not only want to conserve their societies, but also their environments, too. “Ways of Life” often depend on a clean & healthy environment.
Earth Day was a good idea… it was a way to generate awareness of our environment and as an educational tool for young people to be made aware of ecological relationships and systems and how people can impact them, for good or bad.
Mr. Moore has a certain amount of integrity; you’ve got to give him that, even if you don’t particularly like his politics. I first read about Planet of the Humans some time ago (perhaps even a year?) and then kept looking for it in our local art house theatre. When it didn’t come, I thought (cynically) that Mr. Moore had taken a payout from some green energy seller to bury the movie. But now it’s here.
People on the left are more often than not essentially decent. Unfortunately they tend to be angry, and angry people tend to want to hurt the people they’re angry at. That’s when the left becomes the enemy of decency.
Michael Moore is not such a bad guy. He’s still on the side of regular working people and, let’s face it, no matter how rich he gets, nobody who looks like Mr. Moore is ever going to be upper class. This gives him a certain basic incorruptibility that someone like Leonardo DiCaprio will never know. Consider that Mr. Moore’s understanding of the appeal of Donald Trump was possible because, unlike the people who write for the New York Times, he knows real working people.
The Planet of the Humans is actually a continuation of the premise of so many of Mr. Moore’s movies, and that is that rich, powerful people in expensive clothes are out to cheat and bully their social inferiors. So good boy, Michael.
You don’t think they’ll be rushing this Oscarsize film into the school curriculum then? More like ostrasize.
On the very tenuous grounds that this is a post about highly prominent personalities in the climate change/renewables arena of debate I offer this link to a post in NotaLot:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/john-houghton-obituary/#comments
It refers to the death of Sir John Houghton and contains these sentencs :
-“It was under Houghton’s tenure in the First Assessment Report (FAR)(forIPCC) that the process began of writing the all important Summary for Policymakers which did not reflect the detailed chapters.
Houghton’s Summary claimed it was confident that the increase in CO2 alone had been responsible for over half of the warming during the 20thC. Yet the main report was far more guarded and evenly flatly contradictory. But none of this stopped Houghton’s Summary demanding immediate reductions of 60% in emissions. “-
Now I have put that in because I am hoping to tempt a devastating rebuttal from Dr Stokes .
I need some distracting amusement, locked up here in Stalag Luft Altrincham , awaitng the next Red Cross parcel of goodies from our neighbours who have , unlike us, access to online supermarket shopping.
And 2 new dumps were created…
Waterville City Council ends municipal trash collection at mobile home parks
The council on Tuesday also voted to refer to the Planning Board a request to amend the zoning ordinance to create a new zone called “Solar Farm Zone.”
https://www.centralmaine.com/2020/04/21/waterville-council-approves-discontinuing-trash-pickup-at-mobile-home-parks/
I was really hoping that this movie could be a game changer in the manner of “Inconvenient Truth”, but in a good way by presenting the facts rather than just propaganda. In the end I was disappointed. It did go some way to exposing the folly of “Green Energy” and its exploitation by the billionaires, but it fell short in many other important areas.
No questioning of whether catastrophic climate change was in fact occurring; no questioning the role of CO2; blind acceptance of the Malthusian philosophy; no consideration of a greening planet; no consideration of where the major growth in population is occurring and how this might be reduced by provision of cheap reliable energy to raise living standards; no real consideration of nuclear as an alternative. And so on. These facts would be useful in helping people to at least question the the propaganda of the enterprises driving the scam.
A missed opportunity.
“I learned that the solar panels don’t last.”
There’s a big fat DUH.
At this rate they will discover inverters and their expiration dates.
Well, I watched the whole movie before I made a comment:
The first half of the film proved to me that for over ten years or so, that my BS meter was correct about the renewables (wind and solar replacing fossil fuels, etc.).
The second half of the film was truly disturbing…and is probably supported by the de-growthers and by the anti human crowds. (- and those who probably want to kill humans sadly).
Surprised that there was no mention of nuclear energy and nuclear power plants ! (Unless I missed it, but I don’t think I did).
Bill McKibben in this film comes off as stupid and uninformed on what’s going on – LOL. And that, I see as good.
Al Gore comes off in this film as looking very “prosperous” towards the end – if you know what I mean – LOL.
– JPP
Jon P Peterson April 22, 2020 at 7:05 am
The word “nuclear” was mentioned once in passing.
MicKibben came across as rather stupid, i.e., he didn’t know who funds his organization.
“Bill McKibben in this film comes off as stupid and uninformed on what’s going on”
And for proof of that- just watch him debate Alex Epstein who happens to like fossil fuels:
It’s good that one of the less brainwashed of the students recognized that McKibben uses many fallacious arguments.
Check date: NOT April 1. Strange world.
They will curse him from their seaside villas and private islands.
The UN diplomat/fund raisers nay virologists and public health experts will try to control him with contract work.
Beautiful.
At last;
The sane voice of proper left.
No prone to demagogy and radicalism.
No prone to madness.
No prone to irrational self destruction.
No prone at last to delusion… hopefully no any more.
The main power source to/of the industrialization and capitalism, the proper left, hopefully waking up to reality.
Left is good for as long that left is good, aka proper and not polluted, by dogma and indoctrination…
free of delusion.
Extremism, radicalism, dogma and indoctrination ain’t ether left or right proper;
simply a category and class of it’s own… delusional, at the very least.
thank you.
cheers
You didn’t watch the whole thing, did you.
In the same vein. Never mind about running the EV on fossil fuel power just feel the empowering and galvanising-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/why-switching-to-electric-transport-makes-sense-even-if-electricity-is-not-fully-renewable/ar-BB130CLU
That’s referring to some pearls of wisdom from the usual boofheads and groupthinkers at the The Conversation. To get a flavour of what goes on there with a bunch of well lubricated taxeater backslappers look no further than a claque of them at Australian National University anointing themselves The Commission for the Human Future-
https://theconversation.com/there-are-10-catastrophic-threats-facing-humans-right-now-and-coronavirus-is-only-one-of-them-136854
Your future is all in safe hands now folks.
This is like someone finding out they have been buying snake oil to cure an imaginary disease, and instead of simply no longer taking snake oil, they look for a new cure of the imaginary disease. One step at a time for these rubes.
+1!
And +1 for you Janice !
your long lost “friend” – Phil
Aw, Jon. Good to “see” you. Thank you! It’s always sort of depressing when it appears (and I realize it is likely that it only appears so, but, still… 😥) that no one read one’s comment(s). It is, or, rather, USED to (before this site went to a second-rate version of WordPress about 4 years ago) be fun to “talk” with people. Now, that is usually just a big PAIN. Like trying to have a phone conversation via Pony Express.
We all experience this, I realize, and, to some degree, it’s just part of blogging.😐
Anyway. I hope you are doing LOTS of painting and enjoying your enviable location in Mexico.
Take care.
Your WUWT friend,
Janice😊
+2
Mods, I have had a comment go to moderation due to a number of included links.
Thank you,
I see the start of a beginning of a tendency to understand reality in this movie. But it also appears to have the editorial slant that there are currently too many human beings, and that many of us have to go, that we should perhaps voluntarily cull ourselves? or else many of us will die in a huge natural correction.
I can’t really say that’s wrong or incorrect. I also can’t say it’s correct. What I will say, is that I’ll never voluntarily vote for or promote the idea that someone CLAIMING TO KNOW what he cannot possibly know, will be politically promoted to have some police powers to tell the rest of us what to do. Now THAT would be insane.
Mortality rates from the economic contraction due to the current pandemic panic MAY exceed deaths from the virus itself. It will be interesting to see if the lefties an environmentalists and media will even examine this question. I’m betting not. So how can we ever arrive at what may very well be the most important conclusion, that our tendency to panic and to promote hysteria is a bigger threat than the pandemic, or even bigger than the ‘problem’ of climate change? I simultaneously laugh and despair that emotional irrational panic will be chastised, that the media conglomerates will temper their words so as to try and reduce panic and fear, and that the emotional end-of-the-world doom-casting will be less successful in the future. After all, it’s the preferred polemic for the lazy and power hungry socialists of the world, like Michael Moore.
I’m happy that I finally seem to share a value with Moore. Cronyism in the free market system is bad. Propaganda in virtue signalling is bad. But that’s where Mr. Moore and I part ways. He wants there to be no capitalism, no economic freedom so that people HE trusts can fix the problem, even though he mocked and criticized their naivete in the movie. Double dumb ass on you, Michael Moore.
“But it also appears to have the editorial slant that there are currently too many human beings, and that many of us have to go, that we should perhaps voluntarily cull ourselves? or else many of us will die in a huge natural correction.”
The movie is not for conservatives or anyone rational. The religion of Left, is idea the Industrial Revolution is bad.
And of course the Industrial Revolution was one of best revolution, ever.
Or the Industrial Revolution is comparable to the American Revolution- one could argue which is better.
And French Revolution which brought about “The Terror” was the Left- and not, good.
And most revolutions have a tendency to fail, badly.
re: “The movie is not for conservatives or anyone rational. The religion of Left, is idea the Industrial Revolution is bad.”
Yes … this ^^^^^.
MM is sending a message to his ‘peeps’ – “get right with (your) gaia” and I’m going to work towards that goal. He smells rats in the movement and he’s coming after them …
One nitpick (still listening to the documentary):
Fulcrum Bioenergy gets lumped in with the “biofuel” plants that are (stupidly) cutting down trees to make fuels. Fulcrum is a waste disposal firm. They are one of two companies (to my knowledge) that got gasification of municipal waste to work. The fuel input is garbage with the output primarily being jet fuel.
HILN — given, that you are correct that needs to be EMPHASIZED:
Bumms in seats, luv, Mike will say whatever to keep the audiences toddling in. This freebie on utube is a sly commercial for his Next Big Thing.
I love how the only bad thing they can say about nuclear, is that it’s associated with a few green energy capitalists.
Green Energy McCarthyism!
I also never thought I’d say this:
Thank you Michael Moore.
A man with nine houses, including a 10,000 foot lake home, tells us the problem is over-consumption.
He’s still an idiot.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/michael-moore-owns-nine-homes/
“Even a broken clock is right twice per day.” And Micheal Moore is so very, very broken.
Good one ! LOL
As always, the eco-fascists continue to push “renewable” energy sources like: wind, solar, biofuel, pixie dust, and unicorn farts to replace fossil fuels, which is an absolute impossibility..
The ONLY real viable fossil fuel energy alternative is nuclear power, and, of course, Michael Moore didn’t mention it once in his film.
Moore’s grand vision is that humans are useless and pathetic parasites that will soon cause their own extinction…
Oh, goody…
Oh it is mentioned, along with other energy investments — guilt by association.
Clean Energy McCarthyism!