Beside its dire public health implications, COVID-19 is exacting a severe toll on the film industry - hardly the best time for a public release. Director Jeff Gibbs and co-producer/activist Michael Moore decided to release Planet of the Humans anyway - for free. Apparently, they figured making their indictment of renewable energy public was more important than its profit potential, and the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day was the perfect day to do it.
EC readers will recognize many of the criticisms I've leveled against renewables in the past, and I enjoy no small satisfaction in having my opinion validated by hucksters Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Richard Branson, Robert F Kennedy Jr., Michael Bloomberg, Van Jones, Vinod Khosla, Koch Brothers, Vandana Shiva, General Motors, 350.org, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and others when Gibbs's pertinent questions are met with stutters, silence, or a quick departure.
Gibbs offers no alternatives for powering civilization, so if you have a better alternative than nuclear energy I'd love to hear what it is. But don't come back with solar, wind, biomass, or storage - after watching Planet of the Humans, it should be abundantly clear they're non-starters.