Hi everyone I hope you're all well so as I am sure a lot of you know documentary
filmmaker and raging leftist Michael Moore has released his latest
documentary planet of the humans now to be clear unlike Bowling for Columbine
Fahrenheit 9/11 etc Michael Moore does not take a front-and-center role on
screen for this one he is the executive producer and as such has lent his name
and brand to the film even making it available for free on his YouTube
channel instead the film's centerpiece is environmental activist Jeff Gibbs a
tree hugger from way back when who has been collaborating with Michael Moore on
his various documentaries for years and far from the relentlessly Pro green
energy Dogma we have become accustomed to from celebrities and the media over
the past couple of years planet of the humans is a harsh proverbial skewering
of renewable energy and the kind of green profiteering industry its main
proponents have created solar and wind energy billed as the salvation of people
kind by the likes of Greta Tony Berg Prince Harry and of course the
extinction rebellion crowd cop a major clobbering from Gibbs biomass also takes
a beating that is chopping down trees and burning their woodchips for energy
in lieu of coal how anyone could ever think that chopping down trees and
burning them for energy was an environmentally friendly idea I don't
know but you know whatever might inhale whatever the documentary also takes aim
at high-profile environmental activists such as Bill McKibben of 350.org
Al Gore Michael Bloomberg Richard Branson and of course the notorious Koch
brothers Gibbs accuses them of everything from being disingenuous in
their advocacy of green energy like biomass to hijacking the green energy
movement to turn a profit it's really not the sort of thing you would expect
from a Michael Moore affiliated project to say the least
now this documentary was billed as groundbreaking controversial shocking a
real deconstruction of our sacred cows etc etc however when I watched it I
quickly realized it was anything but the information relate by Gibbs was for lack
of a better term eerily familiar by which I mean pretty much married
everything conservatives have been saying about renewable energy for years
- the raging anti-capitalist narrative of course that is legitimate factual
criticisms such as the fact solar and wind are intermittent and have issues
with efficiency since of course the Sun doesn't always shine and the wind
doesn't always blow and as such they need some sort of fossil fuel backup or
like the fact that while solar and wind are built by activists as the clean
green perfect solution to all of humankind's climate problems the process
of making wind farms and solar panels is anything but they both require fossil
fuels to power the gear that manufactures them initially and in the
case of solar panels they're made of materials like courts and even coal
which need to be mined also in the case of wind farms large sections of land
must be cleared which is most certainly not environmentally friendly and also
they kill millions of birds every year more things the documentary exposed even
though the right has been saying it like forever is that in the case of electric
cars while they may not spew out any emissions they have to be charged up at
electric power stations that are connected to the grid which is of course
powered by fossil fuels it also revealed that green energy has been hijacked by
some of the greatest properties on the planet such as I mentioned before
Richard Branson Michael Bloomberg and Al Gore who have turned the green movement
into a money-making exercise despite all their talk of you know environmentalism
excellent anyway the reaction from far left climate activists has been just
beautiful to watch I mean you know how much I love watching the regressive left
eat itself in fact I think this Asteria is actually worse than whenever
right-wing people criticize renewable energy because this time the activists
can't just fob it off as right-wing talking points it is the brainchild of
Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs for heaven's sake two of the most ragingly
left-wing environmentalist people you will ever meet and you know how social
justice warriors feel about leftists who don't tow the party line you are all
hereby found guilty of the crime of witchcraft
i sentence you hags to be burned at the stake until you are deemed fit to
reenter society fire it up boys in fact these left-wing
environmentalists was so panicked by the documentary that they have said it is
flat-out dangerous and they legitimately tried and in fact succeeded for about
half a day until it went back up again in getting one of the film's
distributors films for action to actually ban it from their website
climate activists Josh Fox wrote a pleading letter to films for action for
the film to be taken down for allegedly spreading misinformation co-signed by a
number of high-profile climate activists slash renewable energy enthusiasts he
also demanded a personal apology from Michael Moore although as far as I know
Michael Moore has not complied now Josh Fox announced all of this in a panicked
depressing Twitter thread explaining the situation and decrying the film's
existence I am NOT going to read you the whole thread but I think this tweet
pretty much sums up his and others attitudes to the whole thing I will
adhere with deep regret and sadness that my hero has fallen
I have watched Michael Moore punch up and authority and hypocrisy would
believe 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 okay so it has to be said
here if josh fox really believes that criticizing renewable energy and those
who endorse it is punching down then he's either delusional or has been
asleep for the past year has he not witnessed the massive support the
extremist green movement has received in the media and in popular culture has he
not heard of Greta tunberg and her school strike for climate change has he
not witnessed the terrible smearing of people who offer even a centrist
viewpoint on climate change let alone skepticism I mean really what victim
planet to these people live on
but I digress here's the interesting part about all of this there are
actually some very legitimate critiques to make of planet of the humans in terms
of its representation of climate activists Bill McKibben and others and
also in terms of its factual accuracy now I am NOT going to subject you all to
a full-on scientific analysis of what people think the film got wrong but in
very rudimentary terms the general consensus from the film's critics is
that the picture Jeff Gibbs paints of solar and wind power would have been
accurate circa 2012 now this doesn't surprise me at all since Jeff Gibbs was
reported to be making this documentary as far back as then and has long had
gripes about green energy according to critics many of the issues Gibbs raises
as problems or a gotcha moments about solar and wind farms have largely been
remedied over the past decade or at the very least acknowledged and in the works
to be you know fixed they have also said that while it is true that wind farms
and solar panels require fossil fuels and some very environmentally unfriendly
manufacturing processes it's inaccurate to say that we might as well just burn
fossil fuels for energy which is what the film asserts according to these
critics solar panels and wind turbines very quickly offset the carbon footprint
required to make them since they don't produce emissions while generating power
obviously I have put the links to a number of these reviews and critiques of
the film in the video description and I really would encourage you to read them
because they explain all of this much much better than I can and they are in
all seriousness very interesting and generally quite logical well mostly
logical one critic climate activists Keaton Joshi managed to slip this little
bit of desperate ideology into an otherwise informative critique the film
features a parade of solely white Americans mostly male insisting the
planet has to reduce its population there is no information provided on
which people in the world need to stop having children but we can take a guess
based on the demographics of the people doing the asking I mean
they just can't help themselves can they however even though there appear to be
quite blatant inaccuracies and misrepresentations of fact in the
documentary screaming that it should be banned and demanding an apology be
issued and lamenting that your idol has fallen is a very disproportionate
reaction especially when opponent of the film have the facility and the platform
to critique it which they have comprehensively as such the fact that
the knee-jerk reaction of climate activists was to have a virtual freakout
declare the film not just wrong but dangerous and petitioned to have it
banned proves three things one that these people are so used to having their
way in the media and in the pub culture arena that they've forgotten what it's
like to have to publicly defend their ideas which is making them all sorts of
anxious - they are so so sure that what they say and believe is so entirely true
incorrect not just about the science of the thing but about the perceived
morality of their climate quest that they believe that nobody should ever be
allowed to have an opposing opinion ever because that's just not appropriate
which brings me to three despite the apparent problems with some of the
film's messaging it still raises some very legitimate points about green
energy green energy still has efficiency and intermittency problems alameen less
so than ten years ago but those problems are still there it has been taken over
by a bunch of corporate giants it does need fossil fuel backup and battery
storage is still nowhere near perfect and most important of all wind and solar
as is simply cannot power the planet and allow us to maintain our current way of
life it is just not powerful enough and that's what I think the film gets right
green energy has been billed by activists as the failsafe solution to
global warming that will allow us to power our monumentally electricity
dependent lives in an emissions free way with little to no changes to our
lifestyle that's why the messaging from extinction rebellion activists at all
has been that the whole system has to change rather than you know focusing on
individual carbon footprints anyone who has dared to criticize any of the
notions has been smeared as a heartless ignoramus who is happy to let people die
but it's simply not true wind and solar can't actually replace fossil fuels
while still allowing humans to maintain the way of life we have now the only way
humanity can rely on renewable energy is if we scale down the way we live to a
much more basic sustainable pre-industrial environmentally friendly
lifestyles that's actually one of the things I really liked about planet of
the humans its emphasis on carbon footprints rather than smashing down the
proverbial system although there was some as I mentioned pretty hardcore
anti-capitalist propaganda in there but look what do you expect from a film that
has anything to do with Michael Moore or the green movement am i right
understandably the critics of planet of the humans those proponents of wind and
solar do not want the general public to hear the many valid points the film
makes that's why they've been so completely panic-stricken in their
response asking for it to be removed from one distributed website calling it
dangerous blah blah blah blah blah and you also have to bear in mind here that
a lot of the people who are massively into renewable energy and screaming
about tearing down the capitalist system and interweaving terms like climate
justice into their commentary generally of the same school of thought as
Alexandria Acacio Cortes that is socialists who think they can finally
create the socialist utopia they have been dreaming of by piggybacking it on
climate change policy and that's not a conspiracy theory by the way groups like
the Democratic socialists of America have admitted that in their commentary
that's what the green new deal was all about it's less about the environment
and more about affirmative action and government control they don't want this
opportunity for socialism to be squandered because they may not ever get
another one so in conclusion watch planet of the humans it is available for
free on Michael Moore's YouTube channel and I honestly really did enjoy it and
after that please read some of the criticism of it and then just make up
your own mind also please keep the climate alarmists 200 so wounded that
Michael Moore hasn't the party line in your thoughts by the
looks of it they're really hurting right now if you liked that video please
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