BA Weekly Online Presentation/Discussion - Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans

Planet of the Humans, a new documentary film, is extremely controversial and powerful, sometimes shocking. The movie is free to watch on YouTube. Watch it before the Zoom meeting and we will discuss it on Sunday the 17th at 3:00 pm. Here is the YouTube link: https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE

Warning: This movie will not make you feel better.

Tom will lead the discussion and feel free to disagree. Here is an excerpt from a review by Variety: "A flashing red light to the green power movement, “Planet of the Humans” offers disillusioning evidence that much of what’s currently promoted as renewable energy is ineffectual, wasteful and far from “clean.” Released to YouTube on the eve of Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, it’s a provocative if straight-up depressing takedown of brand-name environmentalism that offers much bad news with scant constructive upside. This is a debut directorial feature for executive producer Michael Moore’s longtime producer and composer Jeff Gibbs."

The Hollywood reporter has this to say: "Nobody gets off easily in the film — including such environmental movement heroes as Al Gore, who is shown coming under fire for, among other things, selling his television network in 2013 to Al-Jazeera, funded by the major oil-exporting country of Qatar, or Bill McKibben, author of such books as The End of Nature, who is described as being in bed with corporate interests and sharply criticized for his advocacy of biomass, which involves the mass cutting down of trees. Among the other prominent figures skewered are Richard Branson, Michael Bloomberg, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

"Similarly, such organizations as the Sierra Club, The Nature Conservatory, and the Union of Concerned Scientists are lambasted for such offenses as having investments in non-green companies. "The merger of environmentalism and capitalism is now complete," intones Gibbs."

Here is a link to a review that is highly critical of the movie:
https://www.ecowatch.com/michael-moore-climate-denial-2645892109.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

We love controversy, so this should be an interesting discussion.

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