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Environmental documentary film written and directed by Jeff Gibbs.
Blew me away.
It's free on YouTube. Simply search for it.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Eye opening.
Lies upon lies.
Soul crushing truth.
Watch the rolling credits to see the reactions of the people and corporations
that were called out in the documentary !!!!!!
Auggie
(31,194 posts)I mean, I expected it to be somewhat... this is the USA, after all.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)not explaining that biomass is carbon neutral vs coal is carbon additive.
Also, they tried to claim wind turbines collapse after 20 years, never to generate again, as if maintenance doesn't exist. and ermagehd they're made from steel! There so heavy too, must be bad.
Very manipulative, non solution oriented.
Auggie
(31,194 posts)Only profiteers hiding behind green masks would find it manipulative.
Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)It spent a lot of time implying that solar and wind cost more in energy to construct than they generate, but never once did they offer any actual numbers or estimates etc.
Also, they spent a lot of time on quartz as an ingredient for solar panels ermaghed MINED, then showed a bunch of broken mirrors that are- yes made from sand, not pure mined quartz.
And on and on, a very manipulative piece, the guy is good, gotta hand it to him but wind towers on a ridge is simply not at all like mountain top removal strip mining like they tried to claim in this hit piece.
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Rhiannon12866
(206,131 posts)Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day 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 movements answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids. It's too little, too late.
Removed from the debate is the only thing that MIGHT save us: getting a grip on our out-of-control human presence and consumption. Why is this not THE issue? Because that would be bad for profits, bad for business. Have we environmentalists fallen for illusions, green illusions, that are anything but green, because were scared that this is the endand weve pinned all our hopes on biomass, wind turbines, and electric cars?
No amount of batteries are going to save us, warns director Jeff Gibbs (lifelong environmentalist and co-producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine" . This urgent, must-see movie, a full-frontal assault on our sacred cows, is guaranteed to generate anger, debate, and, hopefully, a willingness to see our survival in a new waybefore its too late.
Featuring: Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Richard Branson, Robert F Kennedy Jr., Michael Bloomberg, Van Jones, Vinod Khosla, Koch Brothers, Vandana Shiva, General Motors, 350.org, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Nature Conservancy, Elon Musk, Tesla.
Music by: Radiohead, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Blank & Jones, If These Trees Could Talk, Valentina Lisitsa, Culprit 1, Patrick Ohearn, The Torquays, Nigel Stanford, and many more.