Jeff Gibbs, longtime collaborator of executive producer Michael Moore, turns his camera on the renewable energy movement he once championed and finds electric car unveilings running on coal-fired grids, solar arrays with short working lifespans, and biomass plants burning whole forests for fuel. He revisits solar and wind installations years after their ribbon-cuttings, tracking down the engineers and executives who built them to ask what happened once the cameras left. Interviews with environmental figures including Bill McKibben and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. get intercut with footage of industrial-scale logging and mining tied to green energy supply chains. Gibbs argues that mainstream environmentalism has been captured by corporate and financial interests that profit from the appearance of clean power without delivering it, and extends the argument into a broader claim about consumption, population, and the limits of growth. The film's release triggered public disputes from scientists and environmentalists who challenged its data and framing, disputes that became part of its story as much as the footage itself.