"[58], Michael Moore, Jeff Gibbs, and Ozzie Zehner responded to the critics on an episode of Rising. The film shows green tech investor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking to an oil and gas industry group stating, “The plants that we’re building, the wind plants and the solar plants, are gas plants.”, Zehner discusses how companies including Apple and Tesla claim to run on 100% renewable energy despite remaining hooked up to the grid and reveals the Koch Brothers' involvement in green technology production. Explore new, fascinating data gathered by military, government, and private organizations in key geopolitical countries, leading many to believe that a unified human effort should be undertaken to study extraterrestrial phenomena. Once a year these roads are closed down in order to host incredible events that ... See full summary ». Comedian Jerry Seinfeld performs at the Beacon Theatre in New York City with his take on everyday life, uncovering comedy in the commonplace. They say the film includes "various distortions, half-truths and lies", and that the filmmakers "have done a grave disservice to us and the planet by promoting climate change inactivist tropes and talking points". These things aren't true. "[55] Ted Nordhaus, an environmental policy writer and proponent of nuclear energy and industrial agriculture, noted that the bias in portraying renewables in the film "is a mirror image of the misinformation that the anti-nuclear movement has trafficked in for decades" and concluded the overall message of the film is neomalthusian. He also accused the "eco-industrial complex" of attempting to "choke [the producers] to death", instead of "self-reflection". Title: Gibbs and Zehner travel to Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert and show a natural gas line hooked up to the facility. Planet of the Humans suggests to me, in the context of the Covid-19 pan demic, that science and technology is behind the curve of of emerging problems rooted in out of control population growth, demand for energy and global commerce. The film questions whether green energy can solve the problem of society's expanding resource depletion without reducing consumption and population growth, as all existing forms of energy generation require consumption of finite resources. [52], InsideClimate News concluded that the movie "will almost certainly do far more harm than good in the struggle to reduce carbon emissions". [23], On 18 November 2020, Moore took it down from his "rumble" YouTube channel where it was available for free and instead made it available on Amazon, Apple and Google's rental channels. Gibbs sneaks onto a biomass plant property in Vermont and finds that instead of burning forest residue as advertised, the plant is surrounded by whole trees. Planet of the Humans is a 2019 American environmental documentary film written, directed, and produced by Jeff Gibbs. But what if we've got nuclear power wrong? Planet of the Humans makes strong claims that have dangerous consequences – ones that can propel us deeper into the climate crisis than we already are. Their bodies are the paragons of an evolutionary adaptation that has made humans the best throwers on the planet. A visit to his local solar array reveals it could only meet the energy demand of 10 homes over a year. That’s the fundamental message of Michael Moore’s new documentary, Planet of the Humans. "[35], In Rolling Stone, McKibben continued: "the filmmakers didn't just engage in bad journalism (though they surely did), they acted in bad faith. "[49], Dana Nucitelli of Yale Climate Connections claims "The film's case is akin to arguing that because fruit contains sugar, eating strawberries is no healthier than eating a cheesecake. 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