Farming in Greenland

A new feature-length documentary has been made that confronts anthropogenic global warming alarmism head on. According to the website and trailer for the film, Not Evil Just Wrong: The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria examines and debunks the claims made by Al Gore's fake-umentary and those of prominent environmentalists like Ed Begley Jr. and James Hansen of NASA.

The trailer has a surprisingly pro-capitalist message, and hopefully it is carried throughout the film. The Irish filmmakers, Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, have said that the "... theme is how environmentalism seems to harm the poorest people in the poorest places on the planet." This is certainly true, because as the green movement seeks to destroy our industrial society, those hurt first will be those with the fewest resources. For me, the key to the value of this movie will be if the filmmakers realize that the solution to this problem -- the impact on the most vulnerable populations by environmentalist policy and ideology -- is capitalism and the life-sustaining qualities of industrialization.

Based on the trailer, I'm optimistic that they "get it." If they recognize that human life is the standard of value, the thing that needs to be protected, and that capitalism is the tool to accomplish it then this movie could be great.

Here are some quick quotes that really jumped out at me:

"A lot of environmental activists still have not come to accept that the humans are a part of the environment." -- voiceover from one of the contributors

"You're comparing bugs with people! You'd rather save the bugs and lose the people." -- An African woman who lost her son to malaria, talking about the ban on DDT.

Perusing the website, the list of contributors is interesting -- from scientists and media to average Americans and Africans being impacted by environmental policy, with some enviro-alarmists thrown in for contrast -- and provides select quotes from the movie in addition to biographical information for each person. A professor from the University of Virginia named Fred Singer was quoted as saying the following:

The 20th Century is certainly not the warmest in 1,000 years. It was much warmer 1,000 years ago than it is today. There was agriculture in Greenland and they were growing wine grapes in England!, in Yorkshire.

Here's hoping that the film is as good as it looks and that enough money can be raised for a full theatrical release in the United States.

[HT: HBL]