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Cinematic Monkey Business: Self-Contradictions Among Hollywood’s Nature Loving, Anti-Capitalist Activists

While thinking about the storyline in Disney Nature’s new animal movie, MONKEY KINGDOM, we came across a funny contradiction in the movie’s story, and in many other animal documentaries, that shows a problem in the thinking of many of pro-environmentalist, animal-friendly activists. MONKEY KINGDOM’s story follows a troop of monkeys in the jungles of Sri

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Hollywood and the Environmentalist Movement: Eco-Fanatic Movies Have a Mixed History at the Box Office

Like other misguided ideologues, some in Hollywood have adopted the environmentalist or ecology movement to support their efforts to support big government. Their efforts paid off in 2006 and 2007 when Al Gore’s factually challenged, hysterical rallying cry for global warming, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, earned a fair amount of money, at least for a documentary,

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