Posted on 11/15/2006 8:28:21 PM PST by theothercheek
Rich, pampered Hollywood celebs just love to lecture us workaday folk on how to be environmentally conscious. A two-year UCLA study finds that the film and television industry creates more greenhouse emissions than the aerospace, clothing, hotel and semiconductor industries.
When researchers at the school's Institute of the Environment took into account all direct and indirect sources of emissions - including special effects explosions, diesel generators used to power a movie set and a power plant that provides electricity to a studio lot - only petroleum manufacturing created more air pollution in the five-county Los Angeles region than movie-making.
The study did note the rare examples of Hollywood attempting to be environmentally responsible. For instance, production companies for the films "The Day After Tomorrow," "Syriana" and "An Inconvenient Truth" planted trees and took other steps to “offset” some of the emissions they produced. And nearly all of the concrete, steel and lumber used to construct the sets for "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" was recycled.
The Stiletto thinks that, laudable as these efforts are, much more needs to be done to counteract the pollution generated by Hollywood. If the rest of us stopped watching the dreck that the studios spew, perhaps some of them would be shuttered and fewer films would be made – which means less air pollution in LA and fewer rich, pampered stars hectoring us on how to save the planet.
NOTE: The original source includes links to related articles.
REALLY...
One guess why this story will never gain traction...
AP ran it! I saw it in the Chicago Sun Times today. Not really surprising.
These people are whacked.
Ie. counteract the hypocrisy.
I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.
I've been telling my clique of friends and acquaintances this for a couple years and since I'm in an aspect of the entertainment industry I tell the global warming zombies I work with that if I was President the first place I would cut emissions would be Hollywood and other entertainments.
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No kidding! They produced tons of greenhouse emissions - more than an entire forest could have absorbed. But as long as they feel good about themselves ... the smug bastards.
Yay! Glad I could back you up!
Good post, thanks.
I was walking through Rockefeller Center a couple of weeks back - or trying to - and found Fifth Avenue and all the nearby side streets jammed with trailers, very bright klieg lights, all sorts of electronic equipment (plugged into the light poles - my tax dollars at work). Apparently Will Smith was shooting a scene near St. Patrick's Cathedral. I think it is some sort of global warming film because there were fake palm fronds and tropical looking vegetation strewn everywhere - even though the backdrop was clearly supposed to be New York City. If it is a movie about environmental disaster, then this UCLA report adds a touch of irony - wouldn't you say?
Yes, but that's just the AP article posted in its entirety, whereas this is a commentary.
You're most welcome!
I would disagree about sports stars. Those folks put a LOT of work into what they do that goes way above and beyond memorizing and repeating dialogue in front of a camera.
Like I wrote, similar.
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