Jeff Gibbs

Jeff Gibbs, producer and co-producer of some of the most important documentaries in recent decades, discusses his film covering the “fake green movement,” Planet of the Humans, produced by Michael Moore, that was tarred by media and the green industry. Exploring the billions-dollar green industry which banks sell to us, the narrative that technology is freeing us from carbon emissions and the fallacy of this sentiment, Gibbs confers the disappearance of animal species, questioning how global warming has shifted the focus to a single idea (carbon emissions) without worrying about what is driving species to extinction. Studying the increase in natural disasters, from forest fires to floods, Gibbs focuses on the collapse of human civilisation and the concomitant disintegration of nature and the need to focus on consumption and population. Investigating the political spectrum from left to right, Gibbs criticises the left for missing some of the most important factors of climate change by hyper-focussing on carbon. Covering how his film became a wider target of a censorship campaign being condemned by climate scientists and activists, Gibbs deliberates the power of green industry, which he describes as “trying to destroy” him and “shut down” all debate on this issue. Gibbs historicises the marriage between capitalism and the green movement while explaining why his film is considered a “full-frontal assault” on the environmental movement. Get full access to Savage Minds at www.savageminds.co/subscribe