Not Evil, Just Wrong...

[Henry Hawk]

The economic consequences of Al Gore

By JOHN FUND
Irish documentary filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney have stirred up trouble before by debunking smug liberal hypocrisy. Their latest film, "Not Evil, Just Wrong" takes on the hysteria over global warming and warns that rushing to judgment in combating climate change would threaten the world's poor.

The film reminds us that environmentalists have been wrong in the past, as when they convinced the world to ban the pesticide DDT, costing the lives of countless malaria victims. The ban was finally reversed by the World Health Organization only after decades of debate. The two Irish filmmakers argue that if Al Gore's advice to radically reduce carbon emissions is followed, it would condemn to poverty two billion people in the world who have yet to turn on their first light switch.

Mr. McAleer and Ms. McElhinney have put needles into the pincushions of self-satisfied environmentalists before. In 2007, they produced a documentary called "Mine Your Own Business," which told the story of a poor village in Romania where environmentalists fought plans for a new gold mine. The village, where unemployment tops 70%, desperately needed the $1 billion in new investment and 600 jobs the project would bring. But environmentalists have blocked it, claiming it would pollute a pristine environment.Mr. McAleer, then a journalist with the Financial Times, considers himself an environmentalist. But when he covered the story for his paper, he says, "I found that almost everything the environmentalists were saying about the project was misleading, exaggerated or quite simply false."

The two filmmakers are skilled at using provocative publicity tactics. On April 22, they will hold a public showing of their film at the Rachel Carson Elementary School in the suburbs of Seattle. "Since it was Rachel Carson who touched off the campaign to ban DDT, we thought showing 'Not Evil, Just Wrong' there would be appropriate," says Mr. McAleer.

Local environmentalists will probably not appreciate the gesture and will be appalled that the school agreed to rent out its auditorium to the renegade skeptics. But somebody might point out that it's not evil, just appropriate, to hold a debate about the real-world consequences of acting on global warming fears.

[mcgonser]

It sure won't be a popular movie amoung the tree huggers but should be considered. there will be stiff opposition against it.

[Exterminator]

Stiff opposition to a film refuting global warming from a couple of clowns who took money from a mining company to make a "documentary" about how ecologically friendly a proposed mining operation would be?  Who would think to question such a reputable source?

[Bo D]

It sure won't be a popular movie amoung the tree huggers but should be considered. there will be stiff opposition against it.

Have you ever wondered why some call you names? Just a reminder that those who do so don't have a monopoly on the practice.

I can't think of a more ignorant label than to call those of us who care about the environment in which we live "tree huggers."

Does that make Mother Nature a whore?

[mcgonser]

kind of like Michael Moores films huh! He is so far left its pitiful.
Sorry Bo that tree hugger is offensive to you, its not to me. Since I have lived in a farm community most of my life I do  know about serious conservation and taking care of our planet. Farmers and ranchers have been doing that for a long time. I call people like Al Gore and his gang of California nut cakes the tree huggers. They use this serious problem for their own personal gains. Like Nancy Pelosi who is in thick with the Sierra Club and other ecology groups. They are who gets her elected.

[Bo D]

Sorry Bo that tree hugger is offensive to you, its not to me.

Oh .. so then I can call you an ignorant rightard?

Hey .... that's not offensive to me.

[Bo D]

They use this serious problem for their own personal gains. Like Nancy Pelosi who is in thick with the Sierra Club and other ecology groups. They are who gets her elected.

I wonder how many the NRA gets elected? Or Exxon?

[Exterminator]

Since I have lived in a farm community most of my life I do  know about serious conservation and taking care of our planet.

I guess that means that since I've lived in a city for most of my life, I know how to build a skyscraper.   

[Bo D]

I guess that means that since I've lived in a city for most of my life, I know how to build a skyscraper.   

And I can see Russia from my front porch!

[Locutus]

I can see Cuba from mine.

[Ma and Pa]

I just looked; I can see the sun from mine!   

[pariann]

I followed Pa's lead, and now I'm freaking blind.  I don't suggest looking into the sun.

[Sandy Eggo]

California tree hugger? You betcha!

[mcgonser]

Oh .. so then I can call you an ignorant rightard?

Hey .... that's not offensive to me.

Call me whatever you want to. I have been called alot of things on here.

[mcgonser]

I guess that means that since I've lived in a city for most of my life, I know how to build a skyscraper.   

What I had hoped you would get out of it, was that conservation and recycling have always been a way of life for farm and ranch communities. Before it became popular and in people sometimes made fun of it. There is no one on this earth that has a greater love or respect for the land and the earth than these people. It is not a Cause, it is a way of life.