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Michael Moore's 'Planet of the Humans' asks: what if green energy cannot save the planet?
Reuters ^ | April 21, 2020 | Jill Serjeant

Posted on 04/22/2020 10:33:50 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

As environmentalists celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this week, a new documentary poses a sobering question.

What if wind farms, solar panels and other green energy projects are not enough to save the planet and humanity simply cannot sustain life as we know it?

“Planet of the Humans,” executive produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and written and directed by Jeff Gibbs, asks hard questions about what it sees as the failure of well-meaning efforts to halt climate change.

“It seems like we have been losing the battle,” Moore told Reuters. “We are in deep, deep trouble.”

"Planet of the Humans," which will be released on YouTube on Tuesday free of charge to the public, argues that the mainstream environmental movement has sold out to corporate interests and that solar and wind energy components and electric cars rely too heavily on deforestation and electricity generated from coal and natural gas to produce them.

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Moore said that he, like many people, thought electric cars were a good idea, “but I didn’t really think about where is the electricity coming from?”

“I assumed solar panels would last for ever. I didn’t know what went into the making of them,” Moore added, referring to raw materials, including quartz, and the fossil fuels needed to manufacture the panels.

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(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; greenenergy; michaelmoore
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1 posted on 04/22/2020 10:33:50 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary | Directed by Jeff Gibbs

Hold your nose and take a look.

2 posted on 04/22/2020 10:36:06 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: yesthatjallen

What if another cheeseburger cannot save Michael Moore?


3 posted on 04/22/2020 10:36:26 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: yesthatjallen

Yeah.

And what if the models you greenwads use are as false, phony, wrong and incorrect as the models “experts” used to predict millions of Covid deaths.

Oh wait. They are wrong. They have been wrong for decades. And they will continue to be wrong as long as you spew forth your lies and propaganda.


4 posted on 04/22/2020 10:38:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Stalinists lie. Always

Lumpy Riefenstahl was gut punched while editing his Columbine movie because none of the 9-11 hijackers had used a gun. He acknowledged this in a web post that week. But he persisted in his agenda.


5 posted on 04/22/2020 10:38:12 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Let go and Let God.


6 posted on 04/22/2020 10:39:15 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The planet’s not going anywhere until God terminates it.


7 posted on 04/22/2020 10:40:51 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yeah, try running 30,000 ventilators and 5000 CT scanners using windmills.


8 posted on 04/22/2020 10:41:26 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Someone get Michael Moore a Bible. . . . so he can check out what God Himself does to heaven and earth. The main thing to be concerned about is where one shall spend eternity. Heaven or hell (talk about climate change!). We have a choice.
https://www.gotquestions.org/end-of-the-world.html


9 posted on 04/22/2020 10:41:52 AM PDT by Maudeen (JESUS . . . OUR NATION'S ONLY ANSWER)
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To: yesthatjallen

Save the planet from what?


10 posted on 04/22/2020 10:43:33 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Idiots like him should just leave the planet. That would help.


11 posted on 04/22/2020 10:45:36 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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People like Michael Moore and AOC used to get attention because they seemed so radical and seemed to be fighting against the establishment. As the establishment increasingly becomes homogeneously radical there is an opportunity for some leftists to rock the boat and question the status quo.

Not saying that's happening here but simply that this opportunity exists. Of course conservatives have been doing that but no one listens to them in the MSM. Perhaps some leftists can become useful idiots for us and get some attention for themselves by playing this role.

12 posted on 04/22/2020 10:47:23 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Maudeen

“Someone get Michael Moore a Bible”

It would burn his hands.


13 posted on 04/22/2020 10:48:46 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: yesthatjallen

Then all leftists greenies Democrats socialist communist et al need to off themselves since they are consuming and not producing anyway


14 posted on 04/22/2020 10:52:13 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Open up America! Enough! COMMUNISM was and IS the problem Boycott China)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Green energy” cannot save the planet, because firstly, the planet does not need “saving”, and secondly, it is a futile gesture, making not whit of difference except for the rapid decimation of the human species.

“Green energy” alone cannot supply all the accumulated needs of the present world population, but clever utilization of the sources of energy we do have can sustain a population load perhaps several times our current numbers. There is an upper limit, of course, when Montana becomes as densely populated as New York City now is, but that is not in the immediate offing.


15 posted on 04/22/2020 10:52:26 AM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: yesthatjallen

Easy. Kill all the fat directors.


16 posted on 04/22/2020 10:58:53 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ asks: what if green energy cannot save the planet?”

that’s easy: use purple energy instead ...


17 posted on 04/22/2020 11:02:54 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: yesthatjallen

This fat slobs head needs to be mounted a wall some where like an eight-point buck.


18 posted on 04/22/2020 11:05:51 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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Moore has partially seen the light. His faithful afficianados will be micro-aggressed that electric vehicles and solar energy are a fraud.

Show it in schools.


19 posted on 04/22/2020 11:10:47 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Then all of the fat liberals will just have to kill themselves to save all the rest of us.


20 posted on 04/22/2020 11:20:08 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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