NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M ichael Moore and Jeff Gibbs have released a new movie. Entitled “Planet of the Humans,” the film examines the question of whether “green energy” can “save the planet” from global warming. Their answer is an unequivocal “no.” Instead, a more effective final solution is needed for the human problem.
Planet of the Humans has been received warmly by many on the right, and coldly by much of the left, because it forcefully attacks wind, solar, and especially biomass as false solutions to the energy needs of industrial civilization. The film is replete with images of giant solar energy projects built a few years ago with much hullabaloo at taxpayer expense now lying around as fields of junk, rusting broken wind turbines, and devastated forests. It does not hesitate to show how pitiful the energy yields and CO2 emission reductions from such projects have been. It is merciless in portraying Al Gore, Bill McKibben, the Sierra Club, and other noteworthy green energy promoters as profiteers, scamming the public while destroying the environment for personal greed. As a cinematic hit job on the green-energy movement, it is without peer.
That said, Planet of the Humans stands among the most perverse movies ever made, one that should not be touched by conservatives with a ten-foot pole. Green energy cannot sustain industrial civilization, Moore says. Therefore, he says, industrial civilization should not be sustained.
Moore and Gibbs affect concern for the forests that are being incinerated to produce electricity. Yet they express no interest whatsoever in well-proven technologies that make such destruction unnecessary. For example, a single 1000 MWe nuclear power plant produces about 100,000 terajoules (TJ) per year of thermal energy, saving about a million tons of dry wood from combustion. In 2019, the U.S. had the electricity-generation equivalent of 93 such nuclear plants, 182 natural gas-fired plants, 111 coal-fired plants, 22 oil-fired plants, and 32 hydroelectric stations. Collectively, this amounts to a savings of 440 million tons of wood per year, or about 90 times as much wood as actually is being burned.
More: https://news.yahoo.com/michael-moore-embraces-overpopulation-fallacy-103042176.html
also: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/30/whats-michael-moores-actual-agenda
Exposing the Big Game 
Human overpopulation is the root of all our problems. We are a plague
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Amen.
The basic conclusions of Moore seem correct to me: Overpopulation, never-ending capitalistic profit, gluttonous consumerism, still basic dependence on fossil fuels, ways of human consumerism, and gluttony that cannot be sustained. We are meat dependent and fossil fuel dependent. We are crowding wildlife and their habitat off the planet. We do not seem to be able to stop our planet’s destructive gluttony.
Right. How do people think wildlife, biodiversity, habitat and the general environment aren’t effected by the rapidly ever-growing human population??
Another example of how ” the left”/aka uber- humanistic ideology, can circle their wagons as much as ” the right/aka uber- capitalists) does to defend any threat to their ” heroes/ icons”, no matter how much evidence is presented to them.
Actions speak louder than words, and Al, Bill and the Sierra Club( which cowardly refuses to even discuss human overpopulation lest they might ” offend” anyone) are showing their true colors.
Yep, great commrnts. Until they address overpopulation, the rest of it (limiting carbon to 1.5, etc.) won’t happen…