The Bizarre Blindspot in “Planet of the Humans”
So, was the film “Planet of the Humans” a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers’ phony claim to care about Mother Earth? Or was it an honest, get real, exposé of its assertion that, “The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete”?
There are two things to consider when considering this question. What were the filmmakers’ motivations and intentions? And what was the film’s actual impact on this movement and the planet the filmmakers claim to care about?
The fact that most large environmental organizations are attacking the new film “Planet of the Humans” as a hit job is understandable. It has the potential to hit them where it hurts—funding, membership, and public support. That’s why their conservative enemies are gleefully praising and touting the film.
Groups like the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, and the Natural Resources Defense Council depend on wealthy corporate and foundation donors for much of their operating funds. The rest comes from concerned citizen supporters who really want to believe that they can partake in “green capitalism” and save the planet by sending in their membership dues and buying “sustainable” products, without fundamentally altering their middle class lifestyle.
This leaves these mainstream environmental groups in a double bind. Neither their members nor their corporate funders want to admit that industrial capitalism is as deadly as a cancerous tumor and many green technologies are little more than deceptive placebos.
The film highlights the way major corporations have passed themselves off as “sustainable” by promoting fake-green technologies like biomass, or by falsely claiming that they run on 100% renewable energy. Worse yet they have promoted the lie that “renewable” energy technologies, like solar panels and wind farms, are not heavily dependent on fossil fuels and rare minerals.
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