Indeed, as I said- by all means watch it, absorb what Gibbs is trying to say and the stuff he presents as fact, and then get the real information. It's a valuable lesson in media literacy.
Moore has made a living ringing the confirmation bias of people with a particular ideological viewpoint. It's good business- he has a loyal following. And it's not that what he's saying doesn't have a point- there's always something valid in there. He's discovered of course that you get a better "ring" if you leave out the inconvenient stuff that makes people realize that there's another perspective worthy of considering, and that the truth likely lies to the left or right of his ideological position to some degree.
The same is true with Gibbs' criticism of renewable energy. He rightly points out that renewable energy is not without its impacts- environmental, societal, economic, political etc., that they have been politicized, hyped and marketed into something they are not and can never be, and have been used for private gain (nothing wrong with that last bit in my books at all- nor in Moore's- he's quite a rich man). They're real technologies, and hence cannot be compared against impossible perfection, but rather must be contrasted against what they replace. Gibbs utterly FAILS to do that. He compares them against his own failed idealism and finds them wanting. No surprise- he was living in a fantasy of his own construction.
