"Not Evil, Just Wrong" reviewed

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=1220 ^ | Bernie

[mattstat]

Too confused and too nuanced to be effective

Phelim McAleer’s and Ann McElhinney’s Not Evil, Just Wrong targets the hypocrisy, self-righteousness and scare-mongering of Al Gore and the doomsayers of the environmental movement. The movie primarily focuses on the inappropriate and unjustified use of scare tactics by those who want to do good but end up doing harm because they fail to sufficiently value human life and ordinary human aspirations.

McAleer and McElhinney argue that Gore and leaders of the environmental movement divert attention away from current and real human tragedies, like the millions of children who die each year in Africa from malaria and onto “possible” problems in the distant future, most of which are marginal to the interests of the vast majority of human beings. For most, the solutions proposed by Gore and other activists are worse than the problems they are meant to address.

Not Evil, Just Wrong

The filmmakers have taken on a difficult challenge. It is extraordinarily complicated to create an argument, not to mention a movie, which effectively criticizes those who want to make the world a better place by protecting the environment. McAleer and McElhinney make a well-intentioned effort to generate some counter-propaganda, but they do not pull it off. Their arguments are not sharp enough, their imagery is counter-productive, and...