Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | A Film by Jeff Gibbs | Full Documentary
Michael Moore7 HN recommenders · recommended in 7 months, 2020–2024
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Planet of the Humans, a full documentary by Jeff Gibbs presented by Michael Moore, arguing that the green movement has been co-opted by corporate and wealthy interests and that techno-fixes are not enough.
HN uses it as a contrarian critique of renewables and green tech, often recommended with caveats about bias and flawed conclusions.
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> Are there serious research about how much this "green" tech is actually greener or not? The Michael Moore produced documentary Planet of the Humans[0] tries to answer that question. Strongly recommended. [0]: ▶ this video
> A lot of cheap solar energy, from the best location. I recommend that you watch the "Planet of the Humans" documentary to understand why there is no cheap solar energy, no so-called "green" energies: ▶ this video So there will never be any "green" planes, no matter if they use hydrogen or kerosen. Since the minimum required amount of energy to fly from point A to point B with N passengers will always be the same.
I recommend that you watch the "Planet of The Humans" documentary to understand why there is no cheap or green energy: ▶ this video
Everyone wanting to really understand what is going on with the new green economy and these platitudes should watch Michael Moore's nee documentary he just released free on YouTube called Planet of the Humans. ▶ this video
Here is an interesting but sad documentary from 2020. (1h40m). It addresses the concerns about hydrogen. "Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will — 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. " ▶ this video
'Planet of the humans' made trenchant points on three issues 1. The global population is exploding in size and the main cause of environmental anxieties link 'From 2017 to 2050, it is expected that half of the world’s population growth will be concentrated in just nine countries: India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, the United Republic of Tanzania, the United States of America, Uganda and Indonesia (ordered by their expected contribution to total growth)'. link 2. Sierra club and other environmental 'non profits' are condoning the burning of astonishing amounts of wood at the altar of electricity worship for questionable reasons, despite their mission being to save forests 3. The EU appear to have abandoned any sort of strategic foresight, betting the farm on unproven and unreliable wind and solar power claims while shutting off energy to the people they serve in the middle of winter, while simultaneously destroying the ability to travel with punitive restrictions on personally owned vehicles. Absolute madness. The Caliban on the US west coast are the EU's twin organization. ____________________________ ▶ this video Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will — 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 i
I think the Gibbs/Moore film 'planet of the humans' is highly pertinent to this thread. ▶ this video Blood & Gore come across very poorly as cynical green capitalists in this 2020 documentary. ▶ this video The profit motive Generation investment management/ Blood and Gore ▶ this video
The Moore Documentary got lots of flack but does raise some pretty good points, particularly about combustion of biofuel. You can see the whole thing here: ▶ this video I disagree with the movie's conclusion, which seems identical to yours. We can use tech to keep quality of life high by using responsible and sustainable energy systems like nuclear/wind/solar/hydro. PoTH hardly even mentioned nuclear, which tears their whole "we must depopulate" narrative apart easily.
also, solar might not be solar. "Utility scale solar" is ambiguous and can mean solar thermal or pv solar. I think solar thermal might be a completely different animal that is not long-lived and not clean. It might be a similar situation to where "renewable power" turns out to me mostly burning garbage or burning trees. This documentary might be a little biased but also have some interesting insights: ▶ this video
> It largely centers around deceptive messages that “climate solutions won’t work,” that the science backing those solutions is unreliable Like the latest Michael Moore documentary? The well known shill of Big Oil? Is that the kind of thing we should start censoring? ▶ this video
Aside from solar and wind, I wondered about biomass renewables (after watching Michael Moore's planet of the humans) link ▶ this video glad to see it's not the majority of "renewables" and that they are mostly solar, wind and hydro.
Not sure why you got downvoted. Not emitting carbon is always going to be more effective than emitting then capturing carbon. But most of green tech is a load of green washing ( ▶ this video warning long video). By most I mean non-nuclear, non hydro-electric. Fact is that battery tech isn't up to task of high capacity highly reusable energy storage.