Posted on 04/28/2020 9:21:49 AM PDT by grundle
A new Michael Moore-produced documentary that takes aim at the supposed hypocrisy of the green movement is “dangerous, misleading and destructive” and should be removed from public viewing, according to an assortment of climate scientists and environmental campaigners.
The film, Planet of the Humans, was released on the eve of Earth Day last week by its producer, Michael Moore, the baseball cap-wearing documentarian known for Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. Describing itself as a “full-frontal assault on our sacred cows”, the film argues that electric cars and solar energy are unreliable and rely upon fossil fuels to function. It also attacks figures including Al Gore for bolstering corporations that push flawed technologies over real solutions to the climate crisis.
Planet of the Humans has provoked a furious reaction from scientists and campaigners, however, who have called for it be taken down. One distributor, Films for Action, temporarily took down the film after describing it as “full of misinformation”, though they later reinstated it, saying they did not want accusations of censorship to give the film “more power and mystique than it deserves.” A free version on YouTube has been viewed more than 3m times.
A letter written by Josh Fox, who made the documentary Gasland, and signed by various scientists and activists, has urged the removal of “shockingly misleading and absurd” film for making false claims about renewable energy. Planet of the Humans “trades in debunked fossil fuel industry talking points” that question the affordability and reliability of solar and wind energy, the letter states, pointing out that these alternatives are now cheaper to run than fossil fuels such as coal.
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Michael Moore now an Unperson
He can tell them it’s just satire that’s how he gets out of being called out on all the lies in his BS documentaries
“trades in debunked fossil fuel industry talking points”
The world is upside down!
People can get very angry at your for trying to disturb their delusions.
So the basic premise remains that there is a climate crisis. Except there is no crisis.
This is just infighting between looney lefties.
I wonder if any of this will sink into Moores fat and thick skull.
But, when you have shit for brains...
Thanks grundle for the link. To save the file now, before YT takes it down, try a search on "save YouTube videos".
Yep. Truth to power, artistic freedom, and all that.
Pulling the curtain back revealing “oz” is not like the movie. They will do whatever it takes to make us believe “oz” is real at ANY cost.
My opinion. Moore is like Ann Coulter for the left. Doesn't believe anything they say and it shows sometimes.
Last time Moore supported Trump even before I did. Then did a 180.
At least he’s hitting the right people this time but this idiot is an insult to the term “documentary”. It kills me how Netflix and other streaming services put Michael Moore, Ancient Aliens, and ghost-hunter crap in the category “Documentary”. It’s appalling, it really is.
Funny how they don't have a problem with that when he's taking a shot at military veterans and gun owners.
They’ve pretty much rejected him because he’s not near as popular and not pulling in the big money like he used to, so he’s taking his revenge by putting out a “documentary” that takes a shot at them.
Dear Michael: Welcome to your world.
All you have to do is fail out of divinity school, fail out of Vanderbilt Law School (while your father is on faculty there, cementing that you’re a complete idiot), falling ass-backwards into politics because your rich family needs somebody to skew govt. regulations their way, and eventually falling ass-backwards into being VP.
Perhaps he heard one too many remarks about his ample girth and luxurious lifestyle from emaciated Vegans and “Death to Humans” (except themselves, of course) Gaia worshipers.
Hahah!! As long as you discount ALL the fossil inputs that go into creating so-called "green" technology . . . ore mining, transportation, ore processing, transportation, milling, transportation, manufacturing, transportation, installation, servicing. I accounted for the several points of transportation because at various steps, the materials have to move, repeatedly to new locations. I'm not even accounting for the creation of the infrastructure for these conversions, from ocean-going shipping to machinery to mills, which also required nothing but fossil to build. And don't even start to think about all the electricity consumed at every level of manufacture along the way that was provided by some 80%, fossil and nuclear.
I wonder if, after accounting for the total fossil inputs, whether "green" technologies ever create more energy thatn they consumed up to the day they were placed into service
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