This video polemic against the renewable energy industry, written and directed by long-time Michael Moore associate Jeff Gibbs, contends that the Earth has simply too many people. Along the way, it offers outdated views and no solutions.
. Rapid population growth is now the preserve of developing countries, particularly in Africa, taking us back to the truly sinister suggestions of Ehrlich. But Gibbs doesn’t discuss these details.
From a fallacious argument Gibbs rolls into a rhetorical ploy: “Why are bankers, industrialists and environmental leaders only focused on the narrow solution of green technology?” he asks. Short answer: they are not.
Nevertheless, Gibbs perseveres with his thesis: he suggests that green energy is a religion; a belief system intended to assuage our fear of death.Blackburn Meadows biomass power station in Sheffield, U.K. Biomass is a controversial technology inwhich wood is burned to generate electricity, and as such is opposed by many environmentalists.wood per hour, which I estimate would fill a little over one Olympic-sized swimming pool if the plant ran for 24 hours straight.
Gibbs interviews people who live near the biomass plant who complain that smoke from the plant is polluting the local community with black soot. Vehicle tires are burned along with the wood biomass to raise the temperature of the fires. We then hear from students at Michigan State University who are protesting their school’s supposedly renewable energy contract with a company that operates biomass plants.
Gibbs continues to single out Bill McKibben’s organization 350.org for taking money from big donors such as The Rockerfeller Foundation, the implication being that 350.org is doing something nefarious with that cashthough what that might be is left to the viewer’s imagination.
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