
David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.


Forget all you have heard about how “Renewable Energy” is our salvation. It is all a myth that is very lucrative for some. Feel-good stuff like electric cars, etc. Such vehicles are actually powered by coal, natural gas… or dead salmon in the Northwest.
Jeff Gibbs
Self - Narrator (voice)

Chris Dodd
Self (archive footage)
Planet of the Humans is a documentary film released in 2019 exploring themes of capitalism, energy policy, fossil fuel, billionaire, corporate greed, environmental destruction. Directed by Jeff Gibbs, it stars Jeff Gibbs, Chris Dodd. Forget all you have heard about how “Renewable Energy” is our salvation. It is all a myth that is very lucrative for some. Feel-good stuff like electric cars, etc. Such vehicles are actually powered by coal, natural gas… or dead salmon in the Northwest.
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