{"id":52899,"date":"2020-05-01T07:24:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52899"},"modified":"2020-05-01T07:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:24:34","slug":"the-bizarre-blindspot-in-planet-of-the-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52899","title":{"rendered":"The Bizarre Blindspot in \u201cPlanet of the Humans\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2020-05-01\/the-bizarre-blindspot-in-planet-of-the-humans\/\">The Bizarre Blindspot in \u201cPlanet of the Humans\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/screen-shot-2019-08-06-at-8-41-43-pm_orig.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, was the film \u201cPlanet of the Humans\u201d a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers\u2019 phony claim to care about Mother Earth?&nbsp; Or was it an honest, get real, expos\u00e9 of its assertion that, \u201cThe takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are two things to consider when considering this question.&nbsp; What were the filmmakers\u2019 motivations and intentions?&nbsp; And what was the film\u2019s actual impact on this movement and the planet the filmmakers claim to care about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that most large environmental organizations are attacking the new film \u201cPlanet of the Humans\u201d as a hit job is understandable.&nbsp; It has the potential to hit them where it hurts\u2014funding, membership, and public support.&nbsp; That\u2019s why their conservative enemies are gleefully praising and touting the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.&nbsp; The rest comes from concerned citizen supporters who really want to believe that they can partake in \u201cgreen capitalism\u201d and save the planet by sending in their membership dues and buying \u201csustainable\u201d products, without fundamentally altering their middle class lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This leaves these mainstream environmental groups in a double bind.&nbsp; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film highlights the way major corporations have passed themselves off as \u201csustainable\u201d by promoting fake-green technologies like biomass, or by falsely claiming that they run on 100% renewable energy.\u00a0 Worse yet they have promoted the lie that \u201crenewable\u201d energy technologies, like solar panels and wind farms, are not heavily dependent on fossil fuels and rare minerals.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bizarre Blindspot in \u201cPlanet of the Humans\u201d So, was the film \u201cPlanet of the Humans\u201d a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers\u2019 phony claim to care about Mother Earth?&nbsp; Or was it an honest, get real, expos\u00e9 of its assertion that, \u201cThe takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,6,7],"tags":[21552,12479,27343,674,6665],"class_list":["post-52899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-craig-collins","tag-michael-moore","tag-planet-of-the-humans","tag-renewable-energy","tag-resilience-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52900,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52899\/revisions\/52900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}