Inside Clean Energy: 6 Things Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Gets Wrong

Filmmaker Michael Moore's new documentary purports to expose hypocrisy at the heart of the renewable energy movement. But the video, released on YouTube last week, is a mess of deceptive and outdated anecdotes, and a succession of ridiculous arguments. It will almost certainly do far more harm than good in the struggle to reduce carbon emissions.

Filmmaker Michael Moore released the documentary "Planet
of the Humans" last week, a critique of the movement to renewable energy. 

As a reporter who covers renewable energy and has a background in covering the business of energy, watching "Planet of the Humans" was a slog, the equivalent of being cornered at a backyard barbecue by someone who wants to share conspiracy theories.

The writer and director, Jeff Gibbs, and the executive producer, Moore, have put together something that is woefully dated—the kind of commentary that was more common years ago, when renewable energy was more expensive and less efficient and we knew much less about what an energy transition might look like. Today we know more and we know better, but to watch this film you'd think it was about 2010.

Read the story from Inside Climate News by Dan Gearino - “Inside Clean Energy: 6 Things Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Gets Wrong.”