Looking for an eye-opening hot doc to relieve the tedium of rewatching the second season of Homeland? Then grab that tablet, phone or remote and head straight for the Earth Day release on YouTube of Planet of the Humans, a Michael Moore-produced documentary that blows up the entire green energy industry, from solar to wind to hydrogen and biomass, from Al Gore to General Motors and Michael Bloomberg, as a giant capitalist fraud.
After just a day on YouTube, Planet of the Humans — get it? — has registered more than one million views (free) as I write this. It’s hard to know whether each of the million who hit on the video watched all 140 minutes of the documentary’s dead-pan expositions of the corporate, bureaucratic, green activist, media and political schemers behind the renewable energy movement, but chances are most viewers would not hit the pause button.
Whether or not all would accept the grim underlying moral premise that humans are destroying the planet — described as the “human-caused apocalypse” — most would certainly be compelled to agree that great political and economic manipulation has gone into creating the green renewable energy illusion.
The maker of Planet of the Humans is Jeff Gibbs, a Michael Moore collaborator whose rabid anti-capitalist documentaries are as entertaining as they are often wrong-headed. Not this one. While Gibbs delivers monotone voice-over and on-camera descriptions of humans as suicidal pursuers of infinite growth, he also reveals the backgrounds and double-standard inner workings of the corporate coalitions between Big Green and Big Business.
Watch as a parade of corporate celebs and brands — Gore, Bloomberg, Richard Branson, GM, Jeremy Grantham, Goldman Sachs and many others — line up in partnership with the biggest names in the environmental movement behind assorted renewable energy concepts — solar power, wind, biomass and coconut oil — that Gibbs demonstrates offer little to offset the carbon emissions of fossil fuels.
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