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Evil Just Wrong:The True Cost Of Global Warming Hysteria
(PG) You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever, You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains. At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away. -Psalm 104:5-7 New King James Version One might think that a professing Baptist such as Al Gore might be mindful of such a Bible passage. Rather, the former Vice President who has become the most public face for the cause of global warming appears not to acknowledge divine sovereignty in the climatological matters that he claims will raise oceans to perilous levels in a matter of decades. That's only one of the claims Gore made-among the minimum of nine that have been scientifically debunked-in his hit documentary and book, An Inconvenient Truth. Irish filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer engagingly counter the myths and suppositions surrounding the environmental extremism passed along as common scientific knowledge in Not Evil Just Wrong; the first half of that title may be a misnomer, at least judging by the vehemence expressed by McAleer on talk radio show interviews. Like the better films of the hit documentarian with whom McAleer and McElhinney likely believe they share little philosophically, Michael Moore, NEJW employs archival footage, animation, interviews with parties from both side of the issue and animation to engage emotions and intellect toward social activism. The directors don't come from a Christian perspective-it's not articulated, anyway-but believers may come away with a feeling that some eschatological scenarios are coming into play as the arrogance of power and manipulation or ignorance of data by climate warming adherents look to be fomenting into nascent global governance. The subject is given historical perspective by a comparison to _Silent Spring_ author Rachel Carson's campaign to ban the insecticide DDT in the 1960s. That movement birthed today's environmentalism, but in Uganda, where the spray continues to be banned, epidemic malaria continues;this compares to the use of DDT in South Africa, where instance of the mosquito-borne disease has dipped significantly since the reintroduction of the chemical compound. An electro-acupuncturist I know has told me, however, that fruit and veggies sprayed with it in foreign countries may still produce residual neurological and other health effects. That's regardless of the substance's carcinogenic effects Carson feared having been roundly found specious. Some of the nuances of my friend's argument my be lost on the white anti-DDT naturalist living in Uganda and a native mother who has lost children to what she sees as an easily preventable disease. McAleer and McElhinney interview both, and get them to meet, albeit in almost heated agree-to-disagree mode. As for the purported climatological trouble at hand, our doc' makers give voice to an array of naysayers. Some, such as Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, come from a place where they have rejected what they once believed. Others, such as Dr. Fred Singer (arguably the American at the forefront of refuting the hysteria), come from multi-disciplinary academic backgrounds that allow them to assess the fallacies of climate change alarmist. Roy Innes, founder of the Congress Of Racial Equality, harkens back to the DDT controversy to observe that the changes demanded by Gore and his cronies would devastate developing economies and the poor in developed countries. Among the changes already coming to the fore is the de-emphasis of energy generated from fossil fuels. To illustrate the adverse human consquences of that policy, we visit on a a small town Indiana family. The husband works at a factory, making mufflers for Toyota. The wife writes an articulate and passionate letter to Gore about the upheaval he proposes and delivers it to his mansion. As of NEJW's October 2009 release, her missive has gone unanswered. Footage of her homelife and trip is juxtaposed with that of attendees at a green industry convention in San Francisco who tell her to suck up to the tenants of their truth (one of whom wants to slap her). NEJW depicts a cadre
of elites, and what Lenin would have called their useful idiots, bent an
enviro-socialism that would radically redirect resources and limit personal
choice. In the spirit of the "tea patries" that have flouished in the wake
of profilgate spending that has thus far characterized the Obama presidency,
the film also offers hope that pluck, entrepreneurship and the revolutionary
spirit that birthed the United States...not to mention facts...could well
defeat a globally deleterious agenda.
-Jamie Lee Rake
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