Last Friday,
I published
a short article
about the movie
( documentary )
but made no
recommendation
on whether it was
worth watching.
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2020/05/michael-moore-says-green-energies-as.html
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2020/05/michael-moore-says-green-energies-as.html
The movie is available
for free online, for now.
I suppose you should
give it a try for that price !
Half the content
was very good,
-- but the other half
was annoying,
or boring (to me),
leftist nonsense.
About half was a
surprising contrarian
eco-documentary,
coming from leftist
Michael Moore.
The focus is on wind power,
solar power, and especially
burning trees for electric power
( called "biomass" to keep
dumb leftists in the dark ).
A coming climate crisis
is assumed, but not
much time on that claim.
This blog strongly
prefers real science:
The future climate
is unknown.
And there is no
real evidence
a climate crisis
is in progress !
Climate computer
games are not
real evidence.
It's true that
winter nights
in Alaska
are warmer
than they
were in 1975.
But so what !
That climate
change is
good news !
If producer Michael Moore
(not in the documentary),
and director Jeff Gibbs
(stars in documentary),
had any sense,
they would be
promoting
nuclear energy
-- the cleanest
source of
electricity,
proven safe
and effective
in France.
I don't recall
any mention
of nuclear energy.
And the documentary spent
little time on the high cost
of wind and solar power.
THE GOOD NEWS:
The documentary
did emphasize
that burning trees was
a high pollution source
of electric power,
and clearing forests
to get trees to burn,
is not 'green' at all.
Also, clearing forests
to make space to build
solar panel "farms" and
wind turbine "farms"
was also criticized.
"Farm' is really a
propaganda word
that does not
sound like
what actually
happens
-- clear cutting
acres of forests.
Green space
and wildlife
have to be
removed
to make space
for solar farms
or wind farms.
Plenty of
attention
was paid to
the fossil fueled
equipment,
used for mining
materials required
for solar and wind
infrastructure ...
and the fact that
in 15 to 25 years
that infrastructure
is likely to become
obsolete and
abandoned
Jill Serjeant
at Reuters
explains that
the film:
“argues that
the mainstream
environmental
movement
has sold out to
corporate
interests
and that
solar and
wind energy
components
and electric cars
rely too heavily
on deforestation
and electricity
generated from
coal and natural gas
to produce them.”
As usual, Mr. Moore
is blaming capitalism
-- crony capitalism --
politically-favored
millionaires and
billionaires,
generating profits
from economically
and environmentally
questionable
energy sources.
"Green liberal A-listers"
such as Bill McKibben,
Al Gore, Van Jones,
Robert F Kennedy Jr.
– are attacked in this film,
which was a big surprise.
They are asked important
questions on "renewables",
and their answers,
often 'non-answers',
make them appear dumb.
That was worth watching !
My wife thought they were
just evading the questions
-- I thought they were dumb !
Worth watching if you
have nothing better to do
... and a lot of people have
nothing better to do
these days !