Alan: When friend Jimbo recommended "Planet Of The Humans," detailing its persuasive argument that we "greens" are blindly immersed in as much denial about the underbelly of "clean energy" as "Christian" "conservatives" are immersed in denial over climate change, I was confident he was overstating the case - to say the least.
Now that I've seen the documentary, I no longer feel that way.
If you watch "Planet Of The Humans (which streams freely on YouTube), please know in advance that it is very difficult to witness Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and The Sierra Club (to name a few) selling out to the blandishments of false promise and industrial-strength Cowboy Capitalism. (If nothing else, "Planet Of The Humans"' makes clear that an economic system based on infinite-growth-in-a-finite-space is as crazy as Donald Trump, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy taken together.)
Be sure to watch this documentary right through to the end of "the credits" to see how "our" environmental heroes - and a host of "white knight" environmental agencies - put their tail between their legs and repented their grotesque malfeasance within two weeks of the documentary's release.
Now that I have seen Planet Of The Human's revelations about our "green" underbelly, I am profoundly unsettled.
Planet Of The Humans has caused me to resurrect my long-standing (but dormant) judgment that -- in addition to far less consumption of goods, services and energy -- it is perhaps wisest to start constructing new generation nuclear power plants as the best available option for bridging the crucial decades needed to bring solar energy (and methods for storing solar energy) to viable, widespread fruition.
Nothing is perfect, including this "nuclear bridge."
But please watch the documentary and then get back to me with your plan, and/or critique of the film's arguments.
Written, Directed And Narrated By Jeff Gibbs
Produced By Michael Moore
The Left Has Attacked Michael Moore For His "Planet Of The Humans" Documentary
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