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Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore has had his latest film taken down by the distributor over allegations of misinformation.

Coinciding with the celebration of Earth Day, Moore’s film, “Planet of the Humans,” was released this week on YouTube for free, and addressed green energy sources and other issues in the environmental movement.

50 yrs ago today, on the 1st EarthDay, I showed my first documentary “Pollution in My Hometown” to the ppl of Flint. I was 15yrs old. It was my EagleScout project. 50 yrs later, the planet is in WORSE shape. I won’t be silent. Watch “Planet of the Humans” https://t.co/XjUbnem8YG — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) April 22, 2020

But Oscar-nominated director and filmmaker Josh Fox launched a campaign against the film, asking people to sign a letter “demanding an apology and an immediate retraction by the [film’s] producers, director and other advocates.”

The distributor agreed to pull it on Friday after reportedly not having seen the finished product before release.

1) I just received notice that the distributor of Michael Moore’s #PlanetoftheHumans is taking the film down due to misinformation in the film. Thank you to @FilmsForAction for responding to our demand for a retraction and an apology from @mmflint.

See below. And thank you to… pic.twitter.com/3ZzkLhTVyC — Josh Fox EndFossilFuels (@joshfoxfilm) April 24, 2020

Ironically, the attacks on Moore for the film came from left-wing climate activists who took issue with his portrayal of green energy. The film essentially trashed the idea of wind power, solar power and electric vehicles, among other things, arguing that many of the sources of renewable energy are actually quite damaging to the environment.

I just had the unfortunate displeasure of watching PLANET OF THE HUMANS the #Earthday freebie irresponsibly put out by Michael Moore @MMFlint. The film is an unsubstantiated, unscientific, poorly made piece of yellow journalism which attacks proven renewable energy and science.. — Josh Fox EndFossilFuels (@joshfoxfilm) April 22, 2020

“It is very difficult to write this letter, because Michael Moore has always been a hero of mine,” Fox, the director of the anti-fracking documentary “Gasland,” wrote.

“I’m a first-person documentary maker, I have watched his movies since I was a kid and they have inspired and delighted me. However, I am compelled to write this letter because his latest film PLANET OF THE HUMANS, which he executive produced and is promoting for Earth Week, is such a blatant affront to science, renewable energy, environmental activism and truth itself,” he added.

The film was called an “epic take-down of the left’s love-affair with renewables by one of the left’s most known public figures,” by Heartland Institute senior fellow Anthony Watts.

Moore, the Oscar-winning producer of films like “Bowling for Columbine,” and “Fahrenheit 9/11,” recently told late-night host Stephen Colbert that we “are not going to be able to solar-panel and windmill our way out of this.”

“We need a serious new direction,” he said.

“What we have been calling green, renewable energy and industrial civilization are one and the same thing — desperate measures not to save the planet but to save our way of life,” the film’s writer and director Jeff Gibbs said in the documentary.

Moore’s snub earned him fiery backlash from the left.

I will add here, with deep regret and sadness, that my hero has fallen. I have watched @MMFlint PUNCH UP at authority and hypocrisy with glee for his whole career. He has deeply inspired me and taught me. But now he’s the Goliath in the room, PUNCHING DOWN at us. — Josh Fox EndFossilFuels (@joshfoxfilm) April 24, 2020

Absolutely appalled. #PlanetoftheHumans is a compendium of all of the fossil fuel industries top propaganda points in a dizzying montage of falsehoods & intentional misrepresentations. There are *hundreds* of lies & misrepresentations designed to ensure we give up hope. #FUD — Carrie Lederer (@ouliemata) April 24, 2020

Great @MMFlint…so basically you’ve joined Team Trump? — The Ambivalent Warrior ™ (@AmAmbivalent) April 23, 2020

This is an absolute disaster of over-generalization and short-sightedness in an attempt to undermine the scientists and engineers who are working their asses off to make the world better. I’m disgusted that you’d promote this propaganda to maintain the fossil fuel status quo. — Ben Wehrman (@benwehrman) April 23, 2020