“Not Evil, Just Wrong” Counters Environmental Extremism
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Wichita Rotary Club members got a preview of the new documentary film “Not Evil, Just Wrong” at a lunchtime gathering at Wichita’s Botanica Monday. Ann McElhinney showed brief clips and spoke about the film she and her husband, Phelim McAleer, made to counter what they say is dangerous hysteria about global warming.
The film will premier around the world Sunday, Oct. 18. In Wichita Americans for Prosperity and the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy are co-sponsoring a premier showing. Anyone wishing to hold their own premier event can order a premier kit and DVD online.
The film counters Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” by highlighting dishonesty in environmental efforts and drawing comparisons to the effects of the worldwide ban of the pesticide DDT, brought about by the 1962 book “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson.
At least 30 million malaria deaths might have been prevented if DDT had not been banned according to experts cited in the film. The World Health Organization lifted the ban in 2006 after decades of debate.
During her presentation Monday McElhinney noted questions of the Four-Way Test that guides Rotary Club members. The first asks, “Is it the truth?” She says her film uncovers truth in the environmental debate. In 2007 a British judge, ruling on a suit to stop secondary schools from showing Gore’s 2006 film, found it contained “serious scientific inaccuracies, political propaganda and sentimental mush.”
“Not Evil, Just Wrong” features scientists and environmentalists, including Patrick Moore, Co-founder and Former Director of Greeenpeace, rebutting some major claims of Gore and other environmentalists. During an interview Monday afternoon McElhinney said she thinks Gore knows the truth. “People that are that ideologically blinkered have to stay with the story even though the facts disagree with them.”
MeElhinney said the same type of propaganda led world leaders to ban DDT.
“The other thing that environmentalists have in common is that they’re elites. It won’t hurt them so it doesn’t really matter.” Gore and other celebrity environmentalists have been criticized for demanding the public abstain from environmental bad behavior while continuing to use private jets.
“On a personal level it won’t affect him,” McElhinney said. Everyone should have $200 million dollars. I’m all in favor of it. And everyone should have a private jet. But I think it’s an awful shame if people that get to enjoy that kind of level of the good things in life don’t think about poorer people and don’t think that the decisions they’re making will very negatively effect poor people. So I don’t think he cares.”
The filmmakers hope to drive home the reality of extreme environmentalism by presenting the stories of poor families in America’s coal country who are fearful of economic collapse due to global warming hysteria and the reality of children dying in Africa from malaria. “It’s very hard for people to understand the big numbers but very easy for people to understand the death of a child,” McElhinney said.
She says extreme environmentalism is about control and an anti-American agenda. “There’s an interesting timing here, Communism died and the green movement almost seemed to come up at the very same time. If you think about and analyze what the environmentalists say, they do want to control.”
Twenty-five years ago McElhinney, a 19-year-old Irish girl wanting an American experience, spent a summer in Clay Center, Kansas. She learned that Anericans have a special regard for freedom. “Americans, more than any other country in the world, are resisting this stuff because they understand it will effect their freedoms.”
A lot of the environmental initiatives are directed at America in what she says is a thinly disguised war on America and capitalism. “If you stop using fossil fuels in America they’re going to be delighted in China. It’ll be the biggest stimulus ever for China.”
McElhinney said she has faith in the free market. “Capitalism has brought 200 million people out of poverty in India. How marvelous. I think the best solutions to everything are in the free market.”
Additional resources:
- Film trailer on Youtube
- Review by the Wall Street Journal
- Audio of interview by Laura Ingraham
Wichita premier
Where: Wichita State University Rhatigan Center (click for map), also known as the Campus Activity Center (CAC)
When: October 18, 2009
- 6 p.m. Program begins
- 6:15 p.m. An Atmospheric Scientist’s View of “Global Warming” by meteorologist Mike Smith
- 7 p.m.: Nationwide simultaneous premiere of “Not Evil, Just Wrong”
Admission: Free
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Tags: "Inconvenient Truth", "Not Evil, Al Gore, Ann McElhinney, Environment, Global warming, Just Wrong", Phelim McAleer
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7:57 am on October 5th, 2009
I think they misnamed the film it should be “Not only wrong, Just Evil.”
Improvall Silage Treatment Co. wanted university research to prove their product. They were told by Several different universities (not little ones, Nebraska, Kentucky, and others). That for 25,000 dollars they would assign a graduate to do a study, For 50,000 dollars they would assign a proffesor to the study, or for 100,000 dollars you can tell us what you want to prove. That was 40 years ago. I am sure Al Gore et al had more like millions to donate to the university research. How more likely would they be to get information that would help them control the world economy thru the United Nations?
8:48 am on October 15th, 2009
Sounds like an interesting film; but, no, I probably won’t see it: I don’t _need_ to be convinced of just how stupid and fanatical the environmentalists are. I pretty much already know everything they have to say in the film. Hopefully, lots of ordinary folks will see the film and realize just how stupid the environmentalists are; but I doubt it. First of all, the theaters are all in the hands of the very people this film is aimed at, especially the small, independent art houses, which can usually be counted on to run this kind of documentary; and they certainly will not admit heretics into their house. This means that people will have to actively seek the film out. And who’s going to do that? Only the people who already know what’s what. Thus, I seriously doubt the film will have any kind of substantial effect on public opinion. And even if millions of people saw it and were convinced, it wouldn’t stop Congress and the state legislatures from continuing to pass silly “green” laws to strangle our economy and reduce our freedom. It’s been clear for a long time that Congress pays no attention to public opinion. They don’t have to: each member’s re-election is virtually assured unless he gets caught with a mistress or an adolescent male lover.
And, by the way, mea sententia, the film should be titled “Not Merely Wrong, But Truly Evil.”
9:38 am on October 15th, 2009
MJS, I’m glad you do understand these very important issues. The film’s producers are well aware of the bias in media and Hollywood against anything that even questions the global warming mantra, which is why they’re releasing the film to individuals who can have their own in-home premier and invite friends, neighbors and family who may not know the rest of the story.
9:47 pm on November 28th, 2009
Most likly its not receiving the same publicity as AL GORES ego-fest no awards no big media covorage but dont expect it to becuase AL GORE is treated as a god by some fools
2:15 am on March 1st, 2010
Extrem enviromentalism is the case of the ban on DDT is a example of how a lie and junk science has been ecepted as fact a terrible tredigedy for africans the lies of RACHEAL CARSON