However, there are more democratic bottom-up models of energy production. These have homeowners installing solar panels and water heaters on their own rooftops. Bottom-up models similarly turn every office building into its own energy production unit. In this way, solar energy democratizes production and takes it away from the giant corporations. Even today it has those concerns actually paying consumers for the energy homeowners' solar panels feed back into the larger system. Jeremy Rifkin, for example, has written a great deal on this.
So, we're left wondering why Michael Moore chose to ignore such patent truisms. Instead, he leaves his audience without constructive scientifically founded hope or alternative. He releases this disturbing film at this particular point in history when the Green New Deal is on the table. He gifts its opponents with the argument that even the "extreme left" now admits that anthropogenic climate change, if it exists at all, represents an insoluble problem.
Why in the face of contrary evidence did Moore choose to support the right's position like that? Why ignore the advances in the opposite direction that have emerged over the last 10 years? Why vilify climate heroes like Bill McKibben?
There are no apparent answers to these questions. Michael Moore's credentials as filmmaker and progressive activist are impeccable. Progressives are still scratching their heads...
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