This is one movie Elizabeth May is giving two-thumbs down to..On the other hand, critics argue Planet of the Humans , with Michael Moore as executive producer, is a groundbreaking movie, laying waste to nearly everything that environmentalists around the world have promoted for decades..The movie’s premise is that replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy simply won’t work and solar and wind farms and biomass are doing more harm to the environment than fossil fuels ever did..The film skewers green icons like former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, billionaire Michael Bloomberg and environmentalist-business man Sir Richard Branson..Members of the green movement have gone apoplectic about the movie, being promoted on the late night TV talk shows, by controversial film maker Moore, who normally takes on the right wing..The movie was released on YouTube to coincide with Earth Day..“What a dreadful, ill-informed, and unhelpful film it is. Worse, it could set back climate action.,” wrote former Green Party leader May in an online review..“The whole film is a vanity project of two guys with no expertise and less concern for the damage they are doing to climate science and the urgent need to switch to renewables.”. Elizabeth MayCourtesy Wikipedia .“There is zero content on actual climate science,” May continued..“The damage done by this film could be enormous. According to Michael Moore’s twitter feed, over three million people have seen the film already. Some Greens have contacted me in tears, so devastated by the idea – the lie – that renewable energy is a scam.”.The Washington Times reported director Josh Fox, of the anti-fracking films “Gasland” and “Gasland Part II,” called on activists, scientists and others to sign a letter “demanding an apology and an immediate retraction by the [film’s] producers, director and other advocates.. AFL launches website for people to boycott businesses that donated to UCP .“It was very difficult to write this letter, because Michael Moore has always been a hero of mine,” Fox said, but argued that the latest documentary was “a blatant affront to science, renewable energy, environmental activism and truth itself.”.Penn State climatologist Michael E. Mann, creator of the much-debated “hockey stick” graph of global warming, told the Times it “another polemic from Moore, but this time attacking climate action rather than the misdeeds of the right.”.The film can be watched for free on Youtube here..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westewrnstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
