Open Source Truth posts Planet of the Humans, a Film byJeff Gibbs produced by Michael Moore, Oct 18, 2025. Watch full documentary- outstanding quotes follow:
So why are bankers, industrialists, and environmental leaders only focused on the narrow solution of green technology? Is it the profit motive? And why for most of my life have I fallen for the illusion green energy would save us? -Jeff Gibbs, writer producer
[Quotes the blogger wanted to post for posterity here: I chose these quotes from the film because I think the environmentalist focus on creating green businesses, so we can continue to live consuming the way we do, is insane. The whole film tells why, from five years ago.]
So why are bankers, industrialists, and environmental leaders only focused on the narrow solution of green technology? Is it the profit motive? And why for most of my life have I fallen for the illusion green energy would save us? Main driver of climate change is primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
I found only one environmental leader willing to reject biomass and biofuels. So we are talking of the old oil economy trying to maintain itself now with another raw material the green planet. The only reason corn and soy is being planted for biofuel in this country is the subsidies make it profitable. I think the big crisis of our times is our minds have been manipulated to give power to illusions. It's been shifted to measuring growth, not in terms of how life is enriched, but in terms of how life is destroyed. Her honesty was refreshing. But as for the rest of them, I wondered, what are they hiding? And why are they hiding it? Is it their ignorance? Or is it something else? What if they themselves had become misguided? What if they've made some kind of deal they shouldn't have made and are leading us all off the cliff? I
The only reason we've been force-fed the story climate change plus renewables equals worse saved is because billionaires, bankers, and corporations profit from it. And the reason we're not talking about overpopulation, consumption, and the suicide of economic growth is that would be bad for business, especially the cancerous form of capitalism that rules the world now hiding under a cover of green.
Bloomberg sponsored a UN climate session to discuss ramping up biomass and biofuels around the world. Billionaires were in love with the idea of turning what was left of nature into green profits. Remember when Al Gore had gotten Richard Branson to invest billions into saving the planet?
The Sierra Club also partners with the green fund called Aspiration. Aspiration also includes dozens of companies profiting from the destruction of the planet including Chevron, Exxon Mobile, Chesapeake Energy. In order to maximize the production potential of the well, the shale formation will be hydraulically fractured.
The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete. Environmentalists are no longer resisting those with the profit motive, but collaborating with them. The nature conservancy is now the logging conservancy. We will capture the most important pieces biologically and there will be another large block sold to timber investment groups. The union of concerned scientists has become the union of concerned salesmen having taken millions not for science but to create markets for electric cars. The Sierra Club sells electric cars and solar panels right from their website.
The best thing about Svevity is that they make it easy for you. All that you have to do is to say yes. The New York Times partners with Exxon Mobile to bring you the good news about biofuels. Algae derived fuel could help us meet growing demand. treehogger.com, which claims to be the largest single source of environmental news, was founded and funded by Georgia Pacific, a logging company. In fact, they are neighbors. Georgia Pacific is owned by our friends, the Koch brothers, who are likely the largest recipient of green energy biomass subsidies in the United States.
Yes, the merger of environmentalism and capitalism is now complete, but maybe it's always been complete.
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There is a way out of this. We humans must accept that infinite growth on a finite planet is suicide. We must accept that our human presence is already far beyond sustainability and all that that implies. We must take control of our environmental movement and our future from billionaires and their permanent war on planet Earth. They are not our friends. Less must be the new more. And instead of climate change, we must at long last accept that it's not the carbon dioxide molecule destroying the planet. It's us. It's not one thing, but everything we humans are doing. A human-caused apocalypse. If we get ourselves under control, all things are possible. And if we don't [Music]
I've got a question. How long do you think we humans have? How long does the human race have? Ooh. Um. Oh. Wow. I don't exactly know, but it might be soon. I have no clue. I hope I give me at least more years. I think there's infinite amount of time. Infinite. It's infinite. Yeah. I give us a million. A million years. Being kind. I would say probably about years. years. Thousands of years. years. months. days. It's approximate. We're kind of like cockroaches on the planet. No matter how much damage we'll do, enough of us will survive to procreate and keep it going. Unless we can get to another planet, but then we're just going to fuck it up like we did Earth. Well, I think that we will be here for a long time, but we will change. We're going to turn back into apes. [Music]
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if a single species took over an entire planet? Maybe they're cute, maybe they're clever, but lack a certain, shall we say, self-restraint? What if they go too far? What if they go way way way too far? How would they know when it's their time to go? [Music]
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Due to our release through factories and automobiles every year of more than 6billion tons of carbon dioxide, our atmosphere seems to be getting warmer. This is bad. Well, it's been calculated a few degrees rise in the Earth's temperature would melt the polar ice caps. [Music] And if this happens, an inland sea would fill a good portion of the Mississippi Valley. For in weather, we're not only dealing with forces of a far greater variety than even the atomic physicist encounters, but with life itself.
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That was 1958. We've known about the dangers of climate change for six decades. Back then, there was so much air pollution, it would actually block out the sun. There was so much water pollution, rivers caught on fire. Forget throwing plastic bottles into the water. We tossed our cars in there. We also knew someday we'd run out of oil. [For millions of Americans, this may be the worst weekend they've ever faced for finding gasoline to give them the automobile freedom they take as their due.] I never doubted humans would find a better way, and I wanted to be part of it. A scientist sounded the alarm and the modern environmental movement was born.
Unless we do bring these chemicals under better control, we are certainly headed for disaster.
Students all across the country organized the first Earth Day. [At this point in time, it's very very fashionable to talk about the environment, but as every day proceeds, we find very, very little concrete being done.] As for me, you might say I was an early environmentalist. When I was years old, a bulldozer began knocking down the woods near my home. I retaliated by putting sand in its gas tank.
When I grew up, I became a tree hugger and moved to the wilds of northern Michigan to build a sustainable homestead and commune with nature. I wired my cabin for solar panels and heated with wood instead of fossil fuels. I wrote about sustainable living and environmental issues for the Mother Earth News and several news outlets. I traveled the country documenting invasive species, ecosystem collapse, and species threatened with extinction.
I covered protests against destroying mountains for coal and was once even confronted by the BP police.
Olp a journalist. Jeff, by all means, you can take all the pictures you want. Okay, we'll write a report and then we have to send it to the FBI and the US attorney's office. They'll call you.
Through all of this, I kept wondering, why are we still addicted to fossil fuels? So, I decided to begin following the green energy movement. [Music] What better place to check out how a renewable energy revolution is coming along than a solar festival in the green mountain state of Vermont, powered by 100% solar energy. Solar. I was having fun and got a chance to ask about getting solar panels installed.
Olp You can keep adding. So maybe every time you get a tax return, buy another solar panel. But then a little rain began to fall. My cameraman noticed some commotion behind the stage. You guys set up here. Uh this is our bio generator in case. So the festival is run off solar energy primarily. Primarily um We do need to bring some of this stuff in just because uh we want to make sure we have enough power to kill our fancy toys that we have lighting stage.
But the biofuel generator wasn't enough. So they wound up plugging into the electrical grid that we all use.
Olp The other inverter operating, it's actually pulling power in from the grid, charging the batteries. It's running backwards from the way we originally intended to do it, but
That was disappointing. But after all, it had been raining. Maybe next time things would go better. Luckily for us, hope was on the way. [It's been a long time coming, but tonight, change has come to America.] Green activists across the country cheered when newly elected President Barack Obama rolled out a trillion dollar stimulus package with nearly hundred billion for green energy. Green was finally ramping up and everyone wanted to be part of it.
President Obama brought in environmental activist Van Jones from the Apollo Alliance with shovel ready projects. [They've got to put up tens of thousands of wind farms. They've got to put up millions of solar panels.] Former Vice President Al Gore, who had a few years earlier released an Oscar-winning film, shared his ideas with the president. [We have the opportunity now to create jobs all across this country in all 50 states to repower America.] Al Gore had already encouraged billionaire airline owner Sir Richard Branson to invest big time in green energy. [Branson is pledging future profits from his airline to the tune of perhaps $3 billion. Three billion, that's with a B, to fight global warming.] [Is Al Gore a prophet? Um, how do you spell profit? Laughter-
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The investors came forward. [Investor Venode Kosla, known as the father of the clean tech revolution, has poured over a billion dollars of his own money into some energy startups.] Major banks were eager to get involved. By 2020, we think uh renewables will require 95 billion on an annual basis.]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was both on the board of major environmental organizations and was leading a green energy investment group. [We build wind farms. We build solar farms. Once you build our plant, it's free energy forever. ] The Sierra Club received $ million from billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Their mission, fight coal, and promote clean energy. [So, with the mayor's gift, here's what will happen. We'll have a large and aggressive presence in states. It's time for America to find a new energy path, one that takes us beyond coal,
And then Bill McKibben, one of the nation's leading environmentalists and author of a breakthrough book called The End of Nature, formed an organization called 350.org with the mission of igniting a global climate movement. [Can I show off my necktie for a minute because they made it for me yesterday. It's got that 350 on it because it's the most important number in the world.]
Things were looking up and the green energy revolution was underway. Michigan had been hit hard by the great recession and hundreds of millions of dollars in green stimulus money was arriving. Now to do their part for the new green economy, General Motors introduced a new line of electric vehicles. When the Chevy Volt was ready for release, I attended their press conference. [So these electric vehicles are ready for public consumption and we're ready uh with the infrastructure, with the rates, with the communications.]
Olp I am extremely grateful to be here today and in fact this is a chance for me to say thank you more formally. The Chevy Volt is upstairs. We'll be able to take a look at it. You got about a thousand photos. Yeah. This is the plug. It's as simple as that. The batteries are in the trunk. No, the battery in this particular design is a T-shape right down the center and across the back seat area. Cuz everybody thought we killed the electric vehicle. No, we didn't. It's alive and well. So, what's charging the batteries right now? What where what's the source of a Well, here it's coming from the building. I mean, is it um what's our mix of power? Oh, actually lancing feeds the building. What's that? Lancing feeds power to the building. So I don't I don't know. They're uh I bet you they're a bit of coal- They're heavy on natural gas, aren't they? Yeah. Right now the car is charging off of your grid, right? It would be charging off uh our grid, which is n about % coal. How long do you think it'll be before there's a solar and wind uh powered grid? Oh golly. to suggest that all of the power used for these cars will be generated from wind and solar in the very near future would not be correct. In fact, these we're talking about charging these up at night so there won't be any solar at that time. So, we're down to wind and very often at night the wind does fall off. So, I don't think coal is bad. The big battle mountain top removal. Oh, oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's got lovely BTUs. It's got lovely energy value. How do you burn it more cleanly? I mean, do you see natural gas getting bashed? We will be delivering power based on natural gas very shortly. And even with that uh that mix, we intend to use biofuels if we can. Oh, the environmental groups are extremely supportive. We did install the state's largest solar array at my company, the Board of Water and Light. It's just down the street from here. A few miles if you want to take a look at it. Uh what what outfit are you with? New World Media. We're doing a segment on the renewable energy. Oh, excuse me. I got to go for a second. Thanks. guy walks away]
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I decided to take him up on his offer to check out their football field-sized solar array right down the street. [What we're trying to do with this kind of a tour is get a sense for what they've already done as an indication of what we could do to push the envelope even further. We took a hard look at wind and determined that, you know, around here there's not any real good wind coming through all the time. That's what we liked about solar. You would get the power when you most needed it. Pass these around. Look at them. They are pliable. Made in Michigan. That was another good thing. Although the efficiency of these panels is only about just under 8%. If you happen to be NASA and you happen to own a rover running around Mars, they have very efficient panels. But we can afford those at about a million dollars a square inch.]
How many homes would this array provide electricity? [The standard answer that we tell everybody is we're providing enough to meet the peak requirements of 50 homes. However, for most of the people that look at it a little bit closer, we generate about 63-64,000 kilwatt hours a year. Our average customer uses about 6K kilwatt hours a year, just a little over 10. We can meet the energy requirements for 10 homes over a year. Will that be an incentive to put more solar on? Well, if you wanted to make all of the energy required for the city of Lancing over a year, well, how about you'd have a solar array that was miles by miles, right? But we're not going to do that. But but I mean, what would what would-]
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My friend from the Sierra Club wanted him to be more positive, but he was not interested. As a consequence of the big push for green energy, wind farms were rising around the nation, including near my home in Northern Michigan....
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Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road — selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America. This film is the wake-up call to the reality we are afraid to face: that in the midst of a human-caused extinction event, the environmental movement’s answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids. It's too little, too late.
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[KE: Everything climate scientists predicted about global warming since the 1970s is coming true, only faster]
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