April 29, 2020 - 7:00am
A new documentary produced by Michael Moore has caused quite a stir in liberal circles. Directed and presented by Jeff Green, an environmentalist, ‘Planet of the Humans’ takes aim at one of the Left’s moved beloved elements: the green movement. The documentary attacks the renewables industry for selling the illusion that the world’s environmental problems can be solved with wind farms and battery-powered cars.
Reaching over 3 million views on YouTube in the past week alone, the film aims to challenge some of the conventional wisdom surrounding the green movement. It claims that:
- Seeking technological fixes will not solve the climate crisis.
- Renewables do not replace fossil fuels. Nations that add non-fossil fuels energy sources do not significantly reduce fossil fuel usage.
- Wind and solar energy sources are not clean.
- Solar cells, for example, aren’t made of sand. They are made of mined quartz and coal which is melted in a large furnace (which requires more coal).
- Koch-owned factories are producing many of the secondary materials required for renewable energy.
- One interviewee says he cannot name a single entity anywhere in the world that’s running on solar and wind alone.
- The planet has already reached its maximum capacity: peak marine and fish production was 25 years ago, current acres of actively farmed land peaked 20 years ago, rivers are irrigated to their maximum limit, and ground water will run out in a decade or two.
Essentially, the film comes down to one question: can a single species dominating an entire planet be smart enough to voluntarily limit its own presence? The answer is a resounding no. But the film was made before Covid-19. Jeff Green’s conclusion is that the world needs nothing short of an overhaul of the whole capitalism system… which may be just what this disease is leading to.
Though the documentary has faced criticism for reheating “lazy, old myths” about decarbonisation technology, it is still strange to see Michael Moore — one of America’s most renowned Left-wing filmmakers — put his name to a film that could undermine a core Democratic plank in the 2020 presidential election.
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SubscribeComplicated is not a bad term but careless or messy would be better. That was always Biden’s way, long before age and his medical condition caught up with him.
risky technologies such as nuclear power
Nuclear power is just about the least risky and environmentally damaging energy technology there is.
Remember; If you’re typing down here you’re paying for this nonsense.
on the climate front, emissions continue to increase.
That will be true no matter who wins. It will be true in countries other than America. And it will be true for the foreseeable future. At some point, the greens might persuade people to reduce their standards of living by embracing industrial-scale mining and the child labor that helps power it, but we’re not there yet.
It’s not the relentless climate alarmism that is annoying. It’s the belief that elected officials and bureaucrats are somehow uniquely qualified to manage climate. These are the people who cannot manage budgets, borders, crime, and schools. How about we demand at least a level of mediocrity in their day jobs before entrusting them with higher levels of responsibility.
Yes. The idea that the people who gave us the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine, the destruction of Libya, the migrant crisis and the financial crash are going to ‘fix the climate’ is so far beyond delusional we’re going to need a new word for the dictionary to describe just how delusional it is.
Does this absurd academic actually believe Biden is responsible for anything? That whatever “policies” being imposed are his? If Biden is remembered at all, it will be as the senile old liar the party long regarded as the stupidest man in the senate whom they installed lest the old Commie from Vermont win the nomination.
The United States is run by the intelligence agencies. As Twain said, “if our votes mattered, they wouldn’t let us do it”.
He is responsible for lining the pockets of his supporters and big tech
The United States is run by the intelligence agencies.
I think George/Alex Soros might have something to say about that. But then he probably runs the intelligence agencies as well as the government. So you could be right.
Sadly, he will be remembered for the pursuit of a disastrous neoconservative policy in the post-Soviet European bloc. He may have maintained a certain critique of liberal interventionaism in Afghanistan, but he was clearly Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld’s heir in the east of Europe.
I have no idea what to make of this. One part delusion, mixed with one part wishful thinking. What exactly has Biden achieved with his massive climate spending? Lots of subsidies and mandates for EVs and batteries, all of which will evaporate because the market is collapsing in real time.
He gives very few concrete examples of anything, other than a hydrogen hub in Philadelphia, which is doomed to failure because you basically have to burn natural gas to make hydrogen, which makes it completely redundant.
If Trump is elected, he won’t take credit for Biden’s mythological achievements. He will tear them down – and it can’t come soon enough.
Hardly any of the used cars that are available for the $4000 EV tax credit are under the required $25,000 limit. Also so many cars are excluded because of being required to be made or have major parts made in the USA. What a load of horse crap. It’s punishes the poor too as the new car EV tax credit favours the rich who can pay $60k for a new EV vehicle and get $7,500 tax credit. Poor people get nothing really except old cars and bad loans.
Joe Biden is OVER- he’s a lame duck. Now to swat away that fly Kamala.
As someone working in the electric vehicle industry, I can attest that the Biden administration climate investments are as far from being cost effective as you could imagine. I’m sure they are doing some good, but at huge expense. Lots of people are profiting. Few are innovating.
Take one example. I wanted to apply for a government grant to fund some research. When I went to the website to put together a proposal, it was filled largely with information about writing the required DEI portion of the proposal. The website said that was the most important part! It had only one video to help applicants, and that was a 20-minute video on DEI.
Our group of three white men didn’t even bother to apply.
You could could have self identified as trans, lesbian disabled window cleaners of colour
Whenever I see the word “neoliberalism” used by left or right I assume it is being used as a pejorative, as the author of “Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet” does.
But one thing I agree on with the writer. The only thing that government is good for is War: World War, Climate War, Class War, Race War, whatever.
But when it comes to growing the economy, government knows nothing: never did, never will.
If only govt officials had the capacity to win these wars they wage. In the US, we’ve had the wars on poverty and drugs along with the ones you cite. Those have been no more victorious than the others, but they fund a perpetual bureaucracy dedicated to the war’s
maintenancecompletion.