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Planet of the Humans (What's wrong with Michael Moore?)

By David Pellowe - posted Friday, 1 May 2020


""Fahrenheit 11/9" even shows footage of a Hitler speech with Trumps' words dubbed into the audio. Yes, that's the level of intellectualism on display."

So it was with more than a pinch of sceptical curiosity that I watched 100 minutes of Moore getting to the point. What exactly is the seeming-critic of Green extremism attempting to prove with this new work?

Overpopulation.

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That's right, his conclusion isn't that human-caused climate change isn't the real emergency we should all be trembling in our boots before the looming spectre of, but everything human-caused.

"We must accept that our human presence is already far beyond sustainability, and all that that implies… 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 every thing we humans are doing – a human-caused apocalypse. If we get ourselves under control, all things are possible."

So before you go appealing to the latest "documentary" from socialist propagandist Michael Moore as some kind of credible witness to the green energy scam, remember his evidence and arguments will crumble under cross examination. His conclusions, if accepted by a temporarily honest green extremist, will then certainly be used against us to further what has always been their foundational philosophy that humanity itself is a disease, a plague upon the earth.

Such moral contortionism results in attempts to rationalise the devastating abortion and euthanasia industries, promotes a utilitarian view of each human's value and entrenches systemic inequality and injustice. Ignorant elites now presume to signal their virtue by having less or no children.

But as with the perpetually-revised and anti-climactic doomsday deadlines, overpopulation is an old myth. Disgraced prophet and proto-environmentalist Paul Ehrlich wrote a cheap paperback in 1968 (the decade when the war against the family really heated up) called The Population Bomb. Full of dire predictions, it graphically promised famine, pollution, social and ecological collapse leading to hundreds of millions of people starving to death during the 70s.

They didn't.

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In actual fact, the world's population has more than doubled in the last 50 years and the death toll from great famines has plunged over the same period, from around 16-21 million in the 40s, 50s and 60s, to less than 10 million in the 70s, and relatively mere handfuls in ensuing decades since. According to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organisation, around one out of four people in the world was hungry when The Population Bomb was printed, but today it's just one out of ten. We innovated and adapted. Human industry was the solution.

Moore's anti-human, Malthusian movie cheaply echoes Ehrlich's false diagnosis written 50 years ago that there were just too many of us taking too much from the earth. Ehrlich's arguments for immediate population control by individuals and governments nurtured not only a young environmentalism cult but racism, eugenics and other human rights abuses around the world.

"Sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come," Ehrlich told CBS News in 1970. "And by 'the end' I mean an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity." That's basically the plot of Moore's latest movie.

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Dave Pellowe is a Christian conservative commentator & speaker, the founder of the annual Church And State Summit and blogs at PelloweTalk.com.

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