While the film rightly shreds renewable energy sources (especially biomass), it's sadness at a lack of solutions is misplaced. Yes environmental groups are in bed with big corporate interest groups - we've known that for years.
What's not in the film is that Obama's Clean Power Plan was written in part by NG lobbyists (affiliated with NRDC!). At best it would have dropped CO² emissions to ~240 ppm - which would mostly eliminate coal but not NG.
Planet of the Humans does not address a way forward towards a clean energy utopia, but that's because the director & producers refuse to take a deep look at clean energy solutions themselves. For that it would be good to look at the 2013 film Pandora's Promise by one of Mr. Moore's mentors, Robert Stone.
This film is more of a hit piece - some might call sloppy - on corporate behind-the-scenes advocacy on behalf of renewables. For the record, I've been aware of much of this situation for nearly a decade. One can look at Germany, California, & South Australia to see lots of cheap renewable energy which raises retail prices (because of intense grid modification & NG peaker plant usage) while grid stability must be balanced by neighboring utilities - generally with high fossil-fuel usage.
There is a way forward towards a clean energy utopia: abundant energy for the planet.... perhaps check out EcoModernism as an enviro-philosophy instead of Moore & Co's dismal and dreary outlook.
What's not in the film is that Obama's Clean Power Plan was written in part by NG lobbyists (affiliated with NRDC!). At best it would have dropped CO² emissions to ~240 ppm - which would mostly eliminate coal but not NG.
Planet of the Humans does not address a way forward towards a clean energy utopia, but that's because the director & producers refuse to take a deep look at clean energy solutions themselves. For that it would be good to look at the 2013 film Pandora's Promise by one of Mr. Moore's mentors, Robert Stone.
This film is more of a hit piece - some might call sloppy - on corporate behind-the-scenes advocacy on behalf of renewables. For the record, I've been aware of much of this situation for nearly a decade. One can look at Germany, California, & South Australia to see lots of cheap renewable energy which raises retail prices (because of intense grid modification & NG peaker plant usage) while grid stability must be balanced by neighboring utilities - generally with high fossil-fuel usage.
There is a way forward towards a clean energy utopia: abundant energy for the planet.... perhaps check out EcoModernism as an enviro-philosophy instead of Moore & Co's dismal and dreary outlook.