M. Keith Booker, the author of Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Messages of Children's Films, also notes FernGully is "somewhat vague in its explanation of the dire consequences of rainforest destruction and it addresses the economic impetus behind this destruction hardly at all." The rain...
M. Keith Booker, the author of Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Messages of Children's Films, also notes FernGully is "somewhat vague in its explanation of the dire consequences of rainforest destruction and it addresses the economic impetus behind this destruction hardly at all." The rai...
But why is it that so many a good genius goes bad? Or that it seems that statistically, evil geniuses outweigh their good genius counterparts so dramatically?
Epic’sstory is based on the book, “The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs,” by William Joyce, who had also developed the original story for the recent DreamWorks animated film,Rise of the Guardians. I am not sure if I am doing something wrong, but Joyce’s work being turned into fi...
If you planted up a forest on top of an old strip mine and harvested the trees to make biofuels, there'd be a net benefit to the planet. But what if you felled and burned a large area of rainforest to grow palm oil for making biodiesel? Then you'd be releasing a huge amount of...
It is the same way we made our inferno at Waco look like Mr. Koresh's fault. Then there was our chief villain, Saddam with all of his non existent weapons of mass destruction. Bad men are a dime a dozen, we can conjure one up whenever it suits us, and ultimately, this is really...
In 1987, Pondo was tossed into jail for protesting the World Bank's plans to subsidize the construction of a large highway through the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Naturally, Keith was on the ground in Chicago for the 1968 demonstrations in the streets outside the Democratic Party's nomi...
The second problem is that there is no guarantee that beef from the approved ranches is actually rainforest-friendly. JBS and other big meatpackers are required to monitor only their direct suppliers — and not the ranches and fattening farms that frequently supply those suppliers. Experts said ...