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- 2020
- 1 h 40 m
- 2020
- 1 h 40 m
Summary Planet of the Humans takes a harsh look at how the environmental movement has lost the battle through well-meaning but disastrous choices.
Directed By: Jeff Gibbs
Written By: Jeff Gibbs
- 2020
- 1 h 40 m
- 2020
- 1 h 40 m
Planet of the Humans
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Summary Planet of the Humans takes a harsh look at how the environmental movement has lost the battle through well-meaning but disastrous choices.
Directed By: Jeff Gibbs
Written By: Jeff Gibbs
Where to Watch
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Metascore
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Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Population control, consumption control, treading more lightly? Yeah, we know that. We just don’t want to hear it. Yet. Will Planet of the Humans open our ears?
Credit goes to Gibbs for the courage to question the comfortable consensus. But to present a crisis with no resolution feels like a job half-done.
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4.0
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This Documentary is the first from the “left” to acknowledge what the “right” has been saying for years. I’ve been accused of being a right winged **** for not wanting big Wind Farms ruining our local countryside. The realities is energy is not endless, it’s never renewable, it all comes at a cost from somewhere. The left have been telling everyone you need to consume your way out of climate change. Why are people buying this nonsense? Population is the real problem, but if you mention that you’re a right winged racist **** :/ I don’t see how anyone could rate this documentary badly, seems like the left just want to pedal their idiotic ideology. If you really cared about the environment you’d be a supporter of Nuclear technology. It turns out even a leak like Chernobyl is better for the environment than Humans. Chernobyl is packed full of wildlife now.... solar farms end up doing more damage.
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I think others who have rated this, done so after watching the first 20mins only. This doesn't support the oil or coal industry as our future energy producers. It simply makes you see through the **** of what we are being offered now as a "greener" alternative . Smoke and mirrors (watch it and you will get it).
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There’s nothing particularly elegant about the way Planet of the Humans arrives at that downbeat thesis. Though well-shot and edited, the material here is simply too sprawling to avoid feeling crammed into one ungainly package even narrator Gibbs admits “might seem overwhelming.”
While the film sometimes seems to be stretching to find problems in every corner of the environmental movement (apparently, no company that claims to be green can also plug into the power grid), it does a brutally effective job of suggesting that a dream of endless renewable energy may be unattainable.
The loosely structured assemblage of damning information eventually proves more numbing than illuminating.
Gibbs's documentary makes the point that green, renewable energy is actually not so renewable, and that much of it depends on using fossil fuels and burning trees. It touches on the danger of uncontrolled population growth, something that most environmental organizations do not want to discuss. The opinions that rich capitalists have taken over the environmental movement, and that environmental leaders like Bill McKibben and the Sierra Club have sold out is put forward. There is some effective use of TV interviews and stock footage, but overall this paints a bleak picture and offers very little in the way of solutions.
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Includes a lot of already-debunked information. Michael Moore apologized for his involvement in the film.
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The movie, which came out in 2019 is a litany of complaints against renewable energy industry and environmental movement from a decade before, without admitting that they used out-of-date videos and factoids. Some of the information is simply false, and a simple phone call to an expert would have avoided those mistakes. Examples of outdated info/mistakes: the energy cost of renewable energy, the efficiency of solar panels, claiming that Germany has a LNG terminal (showing a terminal in Turkey instead), the life time of solar and wind technology and way more.. It is a shame to see such a big audience for fact-free doomerist 'documentary' coming from the left.
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Production Company
Rumble Media,
Huron Mountain Films
Release Date Apr 21, 2020
Duration 1 h 40 m
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