By Elmer Beuregard
It seems like lately every movie coming out of Hollywood these days is about how bad mankind is for the planet. Even Pixar is getting in the act with "Wall-E" which is suppoded to be a kid's movie. I'm glad I grew up during the politically incorrect 60s, with the likes of Roy Rogers and John Wayne. Back then the message was "good verses evil" now its "we are evil just because we exist".
Monday on MPR they were interviewing Werner Herzog about his movie "Encounters At the End of the World" and he said:
"Many of the scientists there maintain that our presence, the human presence on this planet, doesn't seem to be sustainable."He pauses and then says, "But it doesn't make me nervous either."
When asked why not, Herzog said he doesn't think the dinosaurs were nervous that the time of the dinosaurs was over either.
Then they went to a commercial on how you can reduce your Carbon Footprint and I had to turn it off.
Comments (1)
Heh, I posted a similar thing on a forum last week;
"As I go through the memory banks thinking of some movies and topics of the past, I was thinking...
How much control do we really have?
Now for everyone who may not know, I actively dissent with people who promote that Global Warming is Anthropogenic.
I have been thinking about the plot lines of a couple of recent movies, of those of the past, and in general media. I see a lot of the promotion of the idea that, if man dosent do something, we are going to ruin the earth and cause massive extinctions, Armageddon, ect ect.
Some examples:
Recent:
"Wall-E" Classic "Landfill Earth" theme, (havent seen just heard)
"The Happening". Trees release Neurotoxins because we "hurt" them (haven seen as well)
"The Day After Tomorrow" more mainstream Global warming scare movie.
Older:
"Spaceballs" Capitalistic (looking) planet ruined its air so it needs to be "imported" and said planet is corrupt... of course.
Of course none of those examples have any scientific support whatsoever, but have promoted the concept of mans impact and control.
Im just curious, in the truly epic, widespread and exponential development of mankind, there would HAVE to be SOMETHING that we have UNARGUABLY, UNWAVERINGLY, 100% UN-DISPUTABLY, done to negatively impact our ecosystem, or climate.
But I haven't found ONE,"
Posted by Jake von MN | July 9, 2008 4:24 PM
Posted on July 9, 2008 16:24