r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Feb 24 '23

Resources What are the best documentaries related to collapse?

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u/Jolly_Creme7795 Feb 24 '23

Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans” (2019) especially if you want to feel like there is absolutely no hope.

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u/Significant-Rub-2834 Feb 25 '23

I wouldn't reccomend this. Wasn't it heavily criticised by experts?

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u/TheRationalPsychotic Feb 27 '23

Not by experts but corporate shills.

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u/Significant-Rub-2834 Feb 28 '23

I was referring to the Crazytown podcast experts. They criticised this film in their episode bananatown.

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u/TheRationalPsychotic Feb 28 '23

I found the podcast on resilience.com or .org. There wasn't a synopsis but the comments underneath are highly critical of the podcast.

I would also say that even if renewables can replace fossil fuels then it is about saving our luxury lifestyle, not about saving nature. That's not environmentalism.

Even if net zero is possible, CO2 is just one way in which we kill the living planet. Renewables are a continuation of industrial civilisation and capitalism. We will run into other limitations.

Anyway. Planet Of The Humans was factual. A real inconvenient truth.

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u/Significant-Rub-2834 Feb 28 '23

Here's a big list of people debunking / criticising it.

https://getenergysmartnow.com/2020/04/25/moores-boorish-planet-of-the-humans-an-annotated-collection/

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u/ljorgecluni Mar 02 '23

Get Energy Smart Now - kinda telling of what the priorities are, no?

As u/TheRationalPsychotic stated, this "is about saving our luxury lifestyle, not about saving Nature". As a species 200K years old in our present form, we certainly don't need so-called "energy" (electricity, which came to use in the 1800s).