Thanks Gordon! This sounds very interesting. I wonder if they'll dare show it here in San Francisco?!?! I found an interesting interview with the people that made the film at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2006/1791367.htm# Mike On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:46:42 -0400, Davy, Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >A colleague whom I respect has just emailed me an invitation to >screenings next week in Washington DC of a film Mine Your Own Business. >The first screening will be with the House Natural Resources Committee. > >I have not seen the film, but according to the invitation, Mine Your Own >Business looks at the negative impacts of environmentalism. It presents >the views of some of the world's poorest people, who openly discuss how >western environmentalists are campaigning to keep them in poverty, >because they want to "preserve" poor countries' "quaint" and >"indigenous" way of life. It is the first documentary to ask hard >questions of the environmental movement. (It isn't difficult to detect >elitism in environmental activists.) > >To view the trailer and for more information on the film and the Moving >Picture Institute, which produced it, visit: www.mineyourownbusiness.org ><http://www.mineyourownbusiness.org/> or www.thempi.org ><http://www.thempi.org/> . Reservations are requested for each >screening. > > > >Gordon Davy