Contrarian to a fault ... Moore's "
For Earth Day, Michael Moore has released “Planet of the Humans”.
Sadly, with this, Moore demonstrates how not to do a quality film about important issues.
Environmental scientist Dana Nuccitelli (publications) clearly makes the case of Moore’s failure in the following twitter thread:
Basically the film presented any imperfect energy source (which is every energy source) as inherently bad. No consideration of pros vs. cons, just the cons.It's fine to look at downsides; we're already working to improve most of them. But ignoring the upside is not constructive
Moore’s work, btw, has many moments of borderline slander/libel.
Not surprisingly, Moore’s failure has been embraced by those who have long attacked renewables. And, sadly, been promoted across the media as Moore as this ‘left-wing’, man-of-the-people contrarian makes good press such as occurred with The Late Show.
Some other reactions.
The excellent Leah Stokes lays out Moore’s delivery of a “lump of coal” for Earth Day.
Economist Mark Paul identifies Moore’s philosophical grounding.
And, Jeff Nesbit has some people Moore could have spoken with.
Yeh, perhaps this would have turned out better if Moore had focused on those who know what they’re talking about.
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