Chris White Tech Reporter April 26, 2020 1:29 PM ET
Anti-fossil fuel activists unsuccessfully attempted to browbeat the film producer behind a Michael Moore documentary panning green energy into permanently removing the movie over claims that it contains pro-oil industry misinformation.
Activist Josh Fox, climate scientist Michael Mann and other environmentalists signed onto a petition Friday asking the producer to take down “Planet of the Humans,” saying Moore’s film relies on old data to claim solar and wind energy is dependent on fossil fuels. Films for Action initially nixed the film before putting it back online, saying the move was meant to engage in debate.
“We are disheartened and dismayed to report that the film is full of misinformation — so much so that for half a day we removed the film from the site,” Films for Action noted in a press statement Saturday. “Ultimately, we decided to put it back up because we believe media literacy, critique and debate is the best solution to misinformation.”
The company then shared some of its thoughts on the film’s premise, which was directed by environmentalist Jeff Gibbs and argued human beings are the problem, not energy production. Films for Action decided that effectively banning the film would be a form of censorship. (RELATED: Michael Moore Rolls Out A Doc Ahead Of Earth Day Destroying A Common Enviro Left Narrative)
“We still need to transition to 100% renewable energy. There is no other option. But the delusion that we need to dispel is the idea that renewables can power our industrial civilization as is, and that these technologies are entirely ‘green’ when they are themselves still destructive,” Films for Action noted in the statement.
Gibbs and Moore lashed into wind, solar and biomass in particular.
“Green energy is not going to save us,” Gibbs noted in the film before focusing his ire on environmentalists Bill McKibben, Van Jones, Robert F. Kennedy and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, all of whom push for a combination of solar panels, nuclear or wind power to replace oil production.
Fox, who’s perhaps best known for producing the anti-fracking film “Gasland,” told his Twitter followers Friday that the attempt to take down the film was successful. He included in the tweet a screenshot of Films for Action’s statement, which did not include the section of the post explaining why the producer opted not to take down the film.
Screenshot of a tweet from activist Josh Fox praising Films for Action’s initial decision to take down the film (Screenshot/Tweet)
“I just received notice that the distributor of Michael Moore’s #PlanetoftheHumans is taking the film down due to misinformation in the film,” Fox wrote before criticizing Moore. “My hero has fallen. I have watched @MMFlint PUNCH UP at authority and hypocrisy with glee for his whole career. He has deeply inspired me and taught me. But now he’s the Goliath in the room, PUNCHING DOWN at us.”
Neither Fox, Mann nor “Planet of the Humans” have replied to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. Mann, a Pennsylvania State University professor, has been criticized in recent years for embellishing his credentials. Environmentalists wrote reviews of the film after it was posted for free on YouTube claiming that the movie relies on old, outdated information.
Fox is a proponent of the Green New Deal, a policy idea meant to aggressively transition the United States away from the oil industry.
Like I said, it’s time for a trilogy.
I wonder if Michael Moore has any clue just how deep the green climate deep state is in media groups, political parties, NGOs, and Hollywood. He’s a flea on the back of an elephant and he does not even know the size of the herd.
We still need to transition to 100% renewable energy.
This is logically, linguistically and semantically identical to saying “I am a moron and I am militantly proud of it”.
Our generation is entitled to use up all the cheap energy resources, because our grandchildren can afford the expensive ones, Greta.
The notion that we need to leave stuff in the ground because our great grandchildren might need is a recipe to always leave everything in the ground.
After all, even if they need it, our great grandchildren have to leave it in the ground because their great grandchildren might need it.
And so it continues, forever.
Amazing – climate paranoia has exceeded Michael Moore.
I just watched the MM movie here: https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/michael-moore-new-movie-climate-change-planet-of-the-humans-987659/amp/
The eventual solution for energy will be nuclear fusion. A major misconception by many is safety. Nuclear fusion has the lowest number of deaths per TWH of electricty compared to all other sources.
The most sensible voice in the whole film was the Hindu lady
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/planet_of_the_humans#&gid=1&pid=n-2485947
The real job m maker and money sink is the fact that Win and Solar equipment only lasts twenty years. Therefore, in order to achieve the goal of 100% solar by 2050 all facilities already built will need replaced when they are twenty years old. Then the equipment built over the next twenty years will need to be replaced as it ages. However all of the equipment needed can not be built in twenty years. Meanwhile, at the wind farms and solar farms maintenance and repair is an ongoing operation. That means that by 2040 all working age people will be needed to build new equipment, replace the older equipment, and maintain/repair all operating equipment. now factor in the additional number of people to make all of the component parts for the Wind/Solar farms and the people needed to mine the raw materials so that they can be manufactured.
To say that 100% renewable is not feasible is a gross understatement. It is IMPOSSIBLE.
Meanwhile who is operating, maintaining and building the fossil plants needed for reliable electricity??
The Forbes review has it right.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2020/04/23/michael-moores-planet-of-the-humans-skewers-renewables-delivers-same-old-anti-human-malthusianism/
The film rightly exposes the hollow vacuous sham of the renewables road to nowhere.
But it substitutes it with something worse – Paul Ehrluch Malthusian population control.
Moore’s and Gibbs’ mistake is the same as that of the climate alarmists and green idealists – their prophecy of doom is flat out wrong.
Phil Salmon,
Thank you for posting that. I really despair at how all our global warming realists are orgasming over those two Malthusian Marxists. If anyone thinks Moore or more importantly Gibbs have a Damascusine conversion – nothing could be further from the truth
I do not even subscribe to the old “my enemies enemy is my friend” nonsense. They and all their sort would wish to see us dead.
all the renewables built to date account for 1% of total energy needs that is increasing at 2% per year. Even if they could match the 2% per year the land area needed in 50 years would be colossal.
Michael Mann must be about the greatest climate fraudster around. His fake hockey stick graph is what has convinced the luni fringe that an increase in CO2 at the rate of 0.01% at 3.4 km in the tropics over 60 years had caused the global mean temperatures to rise by almost 1 oC during the 20th century. The supersonic speed of Earth’s rotation (1,677 km/h) makes that impossible as it turns CO2 into a cooling agent, just like the photosynthesis and the ozone formation it facilitates. Go back to school before you start believing the anthropogenic global warming nonsense. It all shows how modern education is not making people any smarter, just more gullible.
What do you mean he used misinformation, tell me something new I don’t know!
It’s OK old chap, we all get a little twitchy about our sins when we reach the end and fear the final judgement. Don’t worry I am sure the master of the universe has seen this all before and won’t blame you for human weakness. So there is no need to spit fire and brimstone to eaern brownie points. It’s too late. Throw yourself on the mercy of the court as they say.