‘Planet of the Humans’: Toward a Greener Green

Jeff Gibbs ‘Planet of the Humans’ is a powerful film I think because it exposes the reason WHY we have to change the way we live on this planet, and do it now because we’re at the end of the fossil fuel era. Thanks to Michael Moore it has been broadly available for people to see. The film shows how industrial capitalism, despite using renewable energy technologies, solar, wind and biomass, continues to devastate life on this planet. It is not new information but the backlash from the left and some environmentalists exposes an unhealthy attachment to a techno-fix. It shows how the big financial interests have funded non-profit environmental groups in order to perpetuate the fraud that renewable energy technologies can power industrial civilization. The elite have long known that funding the opposition gives them control of the opposition. While the film identifies population growth as a problem it reveals that it is our extreme level of consumption that is the bigger problem. Unfortunately the film stops short of exploring a solution only that we must use and live on less, something that fits with the capitalist imposition of austerity on us while they flaunt their yachts.

I hope Moore will now do a film that exposes the myths about money, one that will delve into the mechanics of Capitalism, which is the “private control of the creation and allocation of what we…