*Despite its flaws (which I'll get to in a moment), Michael Moore and Jeff
Gibbs' Planet of the Humans *
*is a must-see **documentary. This film does two things very well. First,
it demonstrates quite clearly*
*that "green energy" is a delusion, **as wind and **solar offer only
intermittent power, and but a fraction *
*of the power required to run even **a neighborhood, **or a large factory,
much less a city; or an aircraft *
*carrier, much less a navy; and, at that, the manufacture, installation,
maintenance and replacement*
*of those solar panels and towering windmills actually depend on generators
powered by fossil fuels. *
*("Green energy" **has been very good for the Koch brothers.) **That is an important revelation; but what makes Planet of the Humans an especially trenchant * *documentary—and the reason why "the left" is freaking out about it, and why some groups even* *want it banned—is its vivid demonstration that the "green movement" is a catastrophic scam,* *as the Sierra Club, and other major "green" nonprofits, and such leading lights as Bill McKibben * *and **Al Gore, **are owned by billionaires and multinational corporations, including some of the * *biggest **polluters **on the **planet. Especially eye-opening is the film's deft demolition **of the highly * *profitable **myth **that "biomass" is a renewable resource—i.e., that gobbling up the forests of the * *world (and **even rendering animals) is preferable to using coal and natural gas.* *The biggest problem with the film is its strong implication—one shared by the "climate movement,"* *and its elite eugenicist supporters, like Bill Gates, and the Rockefellers—**that what most threatens * *the survival of the planet is **humanity itself. Around the middle of the film, Gibbs has some authoritative * *talking **heads lament **the scourge of global "population"—as if the human population were not rapidly* *declining almost everywhere. And, despite the documentary's righteous exposé of the predatory* *interests backing the "green movement," Gibbs doesn't say a word about the grotesque economic* *inequality that's slowly killing us today, and whose exalted beneficiaries have vastly **bigger carbon * *footprints than the rest of us. To blame "humanity" itself instead of looking **at the staggering waste * *of resources by our overlords, and by the US military juggernaut that **serves their interests—and, * *even **more important, to say nothing of the catastrophic system driving runaway consumption**—* *is **just to blame **the rest of us for our impending doom, which leaves us with no sense of what* *to do about all this. * *In any case, this movie is worth seeing: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE *MCM * -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W-errZKtcTumSF8v_%2BaJELukon7QhLN7WtmT2mfLcokhA%40mail.gmail.com.
