Mine your own business

[Denarius]

Anyone see this movie?

 

Trailer at:

 

 

http://www.mineyourownbusiness.org/

[was_usvirgin]

I thought the movie title was some kind of typo, intil I noticed that the movie was primarily funded by a Canadian mining company. Sounds interesting though.

[kojis]

Good statement from the director:

 

"Hundreds of years after we have become rich and comfortable by removing our forests and exploiting our natural resources such as coal, oil, and gold we are now going to the poorest countries on the planet to prevent them from doing what we did and having what we have. We want them to stay as 'traditional peasants' forgetting all the while that the poor people desperately want progress and desperately want to enjoy the good, healthy and long life we in the west take for granted."

 

http://www.mineyourownbusiness.org/statement/statement.html

[AF16]

Good statement from the director:

 

"Hundreds of years after we have become rich and comfortable by removing our forests and exploiting our natural resources such as coal, oil, and gold we are now going to the poorest countries on the planet to prevent them from doing what we did and having what we have. We want them to stay as 'traditional peasants' forgetting all the while that the poor people desperately want progress and desperately want to enjoy the good, healthy and long life we in the west take for granted."

 

http://www.mineyourownbusiness.org/statement/statement.html

 

 

Well the planet can not take it if everyone lived as we do, so in order for us to have a nice house, a couple of cars and free medical services, the poor of the world have to pitch in and ... well stay poor basically.

 

Would be terribly selfish of them not to do that, after all we have become very accustomed to a lavish lifestyle and it would be upsetting to most of us if we had to cut back a little.

[AF16]

While I do agree that it selfish not to allow others to prosper, I also agree that we _ have _ to do something about the environment.

 

Not sure about the agenda of this movie, if it's just stating a fact, or if it is a way to shift the debate so it will be ok for us to overspend and overpollute .... we do not do it for our sake, we do it for the poor ...

[kojis]

It seems very likely some large mining groups are behind that movie working the public opinion towards their own interest.

 

Still it looks like a sensible point of view.

 

Same goes for MNCs that argue globalisation is a way to bring wealth to the previously very poor areas where new factories are built. You can be sure that those MNCs and their leader think mostly about their self interest, but the argument remain valid, and while getting wealthier, they pull a significant part of the world population to a better standard of living.