The Environmental Thread: capitalism, profit, everything (initiated by film)

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Starting with a film making waves:

 

 

 

[No Excuses]

I don’t know OP. Opening a thread by just linking a Michael Moore movie is a bold move. Moore kind of sucks bigly and is pretty cringey to listen/watch. Any chance you can link us something in written form?

[PleaseBlitz]

Well let’s get this started. 
 

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/28/21238597/michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-climate-change

 

Michael Moore produced a film about climate change that’s a gift to Big Oil

Planet of the Humans deceives viewers about clean energy and climate activists.

 

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Last week marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. To celebrate the occasion, filmmaker Michael Moore dropped a new movie he produced, Planet of the Humans. In less than a week, it has racked up over 3 million views on YouTube. 
 

But the film, directed by Jeff Gibbs, a long-time Moore collaborator, is not the climate message we’ve all been waiting for — it’s a nihilistic take, riddled with errors about clean energy and climate activism. With very little evidence, it claims that renewables are disastrous and that environmental groups are corrupt.

 

What’s more, it has nothing to say about fossil fuel corporations, who have pushed climate denial and blocked progress on climate policy for decades. Given the film’s loose relationship to facts, I’m not even sure it should be classified as a documentary.

 

There are real tradeoffs in the clean energy transition. As a scholar, I’ve done my fair share of research and writing on those exact issues over the past decade. Renewables have downsides. As do biomass, nuclear, hydropower, batteries, and transmission. There is no perfect solution to our energy challenges.

 

But this film does not grapple with these thorny questions; it peddles falsehoods. Films for Action, an online library of free progressive films, agrees with me. It briefly pulled the movie from its site, after documentary filmmaker Josh Fox wrote an open letter, co-signed by climate scientists and energy experts. 

 

“We are disheartened and dismayed to report that the film is full of misinformation — so much so that for half a day we removed the film from the site,” Films for Action’s April 25 statement reads. “Ultimately, we decided to put it back up because we believe media literacy, critique and debate is the best solution to misinformation.” 

Here, I will lay out the case for why this film should have stayed on the cutting room floor.

Etc etc along in the vein. Moore is a clown. 

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I’m gonna pass.

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2 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said:

Moore is a clown. 

Figured. The guy has been a beacon of misinformation his whole career. He’s resurrected his career “as the guy who predicted Trump would beat Hillary”. Except he also predicted that Romney would beat Obama and that the Dems would be wiped out in the 2018 midterms. His entire schtick at this point is nihilistic fear porn to get far lefties riled up.
 

Just an all around trash person.