Michael Moore dropped a surprise for 2020’s Earth Day, putting the Jeff Gibbs-directed movie “Planet of the Humans” on YouTube in its entirety on Tuesday and heading to Stephen Colbert’s show to talk about it on the eve of the 50th annual environmental celebration.
But the film, on which Moore served as executive producer, is not the kind of thing that environmentalists may be expecting from the famously liberal firebrand or his longtime colleague Gibbs, who has served as a co-producer and composer on several of Moore’s documentaries. In fact, it may get a rocky reception in some green circles, because the points that “Planet of the Humans” makes include:
• Solar and wind energy are not feasible replacements for fossil fuels because they’re intermittent energy sources that need to be supplemented by nonrenewable sources, and because the manufacture of solar panels and windmills is environmentally destructive.
But the film, on which Moore served as executive producer, is not the kind of thing that environmentalists may be expecting from the famously liberal firebrand or his longtime colleague Gibbs, who has served as a co-producer and composer on several of Moore’s documentaries. In fact, it may get a rocky reception in some green circles, because the points that “Planet of the Humans” makes include:
• Solar and wind energy are not feasible replacements for fossil fuels because they’re intermittent energy sources that need to be supplemented by nonrenewable sources, and because the manufacture of solar panels and windmills is environmentally destructive.
- 4/21/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
In honor of World Earth Day Dia Mirza has written a very thought provoking poem. We know present it to you in full.
Earth Day sounds a lot like Birthday
The man that thought of this name
Urged that Earth and Birth connote life
Nurturing and existence
A celebration of the only planet that provides.
His name was Dennis Hayes
He wanted all humans to embrace
The truth that we are all connected
That this place we call home
Must be protected.
He called upon each one of us to make this a matter
That united us.
A day marked to bring people together
No matter what caste, creed or colour.
“The largest secular holiday in the world”.
And why do we need this day, you may ask?
Because our home is threatened by devastating loss
A loss, of consciousness to such a degree
That climate is changing drastically.
Our...
Earth Day sounds a lot like Birthday
The man that thought of this name
Urged that Earth and Birth connote life
Nurturing and existence
A celebration of the only planet that provides.
His name was Dennis Hayes
He wanted all humans to embrace
The truth that we are all connected
That this place we call home
Must be protected.
He called upon each one of us to make this a matter
That united us.
A day marked to bring people together
No matter what caste, creed or colour.
“The largest secular holiday in the world”.
And why do we need this day, you may ask?
Because our home is threatened by devastating loss
A loss, of consciousness to such a degree
That climate is changing drastically.
Our...
- 4/22/2017
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
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