«Michael Moore apresenta o Planeta dos Humanos, um documentário que se atreve a dizer o que mais ninguém disse neste Dia da Terra - que estamos a perder a batalha para impedir a crise climática no planeta Terra porque estamos a seguir líderes que nos levaram por um caminho errado - vendendo o movimento verde a interesses ricos e empresas americanas.
Este filme é o alerta para a realidade que temos medo de enfrentar: que, no meio de um evento de extinção causado pelo homem, a resposta do movimento ambiental é exigir soluções tecnológicas e pensos instantâneos. É muito pouco, e muito tarde.
Fora do debate está a única coisa que nos PODE salvar: controlar a nossa presença humana e o nosso consumo descontrolado. Por que é que esse não é o problema? Porque isso seria mau para os lucros, mau para os negócios. Será que nós, ambientalistas, caímos em ilusões, ilusões "verdes", que são tudo menos verdes, porque temos medo de que isso seja o fim - e depositamos todas as nossas esperanças em biomassa, turbinas eólicas e carros elétricos? Nenhuma quantidade de baterias irá salvar-nos, avisa o diretor Jeff Gibbs (ambientalista e co-produtor de "Fahrenheit 9/11" e "Bowling for Columbine").
Este filme urgente e imperdível, um ataque frontal às nossas vacas sagradas, vai certamente gerar raiva, debate e, espero, disposição para ver a nossa sobrevivência sob uma nova perspetiva - antes que seja tarde demais.»
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O documentário de Michael Moore foi alvo de críticas contundentes acusando-o de incluir desinformação, meias verdades e mentiras. Houve quem defendesse pura e simplesmente a sua censura.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/28/climate-dangerous-documentary-planet-of-the-humans-michael-moore-taken-down
Fossil Fuel-Backed Climate Deniers Rush to Promote Michael Moore Documentary 'Planet of The Humans'
https://www.desmog.co.uk/2020/05/01/fossil-fuel-backed-climate-deniers-rush-promote-michael-moore-planet-of-humans
6 Things Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Gets Wrong
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29042020/inside-clean-energy-michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-review
George Monbiot, in The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/michael-moore-far-right-climate-crisis-deniers-film-environment-falsehoods
«(...) The film does not deny climate science. But it promotes the discredited myths that deniers have used for years to justify their position. It claims that environmentalism is a self-seeking scam, doing immense harm to the living world while enriching a group of con artists. This has long been the most effective means by which denial – most of which has been funded by the fossil fuel industry – has been spread. Everyone hates a scammer. (...)
It stumbles so blindly into toxic issues that Moore, former champion of the underdog, unwittingly aligns himself with white supremacists and the extreme right. Occasionally, the film lands a punch on the right nose. It is right to attack the burning of trees to make electricity. But when the film’s presenter and director, Jeff Gibbs, claims, “I found only one environmental leader willing to reject biomass and biofuels”, he can’t have been looking very far. Some people have been speaking out against them ever since they became a serious proposition (since 2004 in my case). Almost every environmental leader I know opposes the burning of fresh materials to generate power. (...)
the film’s attacks on solar and wind power rely on a series of blatant falsehoods. It claims that, in producing electricity from renewables, “You use more fossil fuels to do this than you’re getting benefit from it. You would have been better off just burning fossil fuels in the first place”. This is flat wrong. On average, a solar panel generates 26 units of solar energy for every unit of fossil energy required to build and install it. For wind turbines the ratio is 44 to one.(...)
A remarkable number of large conservation organisations take money from fossil fuel companies. This is a disgrace. But rather than pinning the blame where it lies, Planet of the Humans concentrates its attacks on Bill McKibben, the co-founder of 350.org, who takes no money from any of his campaigning work. It’s an almost comic exercise in misdirection, but unfortunately it has horrible, real-world consequences, as McKibben now faces even more threats and attacks than he confronted before. (...)
Yes, population growth does contribute to the pressures on the natural world. But while the global population is rising by 1% a year, consumption, until the pandemic, was rising at a steady 3%. High consumption is concentrated in countries where population growth is low. Where population growth is highest, consumption tends to be extremely low. Almost all the growth in numbers is in poor countries largely inhabited by black and brown people. When wealthy people, such as Moore and Gibbs, point to this issue without the necessary caveats, they are saying, in effect, “it’s not Us consuming, it’s Them breeding.” It’s not hard to see why the far right loves this film.(...)
YouTube has taken down the controversial Michael Moore-produced documentary Planet of the Humans in response to a copyright infringement claim by a British environmental photographer.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/26/michael-moore-film-planet-of-the-humans-removed-from-youtube
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