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January 27, 2007
Envirokooks Told to "Mine Your Own Business"
Posted by Dave Blount at January 27, 2007 11:41 AM
You have to be a moonbat to win awards for a documentary, but not to film one. "Mine Your Own Business" by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney swims against the PC current by exposing what the directors refer to as "the real agenda of global environmental activists" — namely, thwarting economic progress.
The movie focuses on Rosia Montana, a dirt-poor Romanian village that foreign environmentalists want to stay that way, despite opportunities for gold mining that would provide hundreds of jobs.
In addition to yelping about the ecosystem, envirokooks cite the "unique cultural and archaeological treasures in the area." In other words, they like the rustic peasants right where they are — charmingly starving in their wretched huts.
Unemployment in the area runs 70%. Too bad hungry villagers aren't spotted owls or sucker fish. Then maybe sanctimonious moonbats would care about their welfare enough at least to leave them alone.
McAleer originally set out to make a very different film, admittedly influenced by what he calls the "liberal environmentalist" views that are de rigueur in Europe. But after learning more about the struggle between envirokooks and economic development, he came to see environmental activism as "a massive human rights abuse."
Predictably, Greenpeace activists have attempted to prevent the movie from being screened.
