Film Screening: "Mine Your Own Business"
Hosted by The USC Objectivist Club
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 7:00pm
USC Campus: Taper Hall of Humanities 301
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"Mine Your Own Business" exposes the dark side of environmentalism. The documentary hacks away at the cozy image of environmentalists as well-meaning, harmless activists.
"Mine Your Own Business" is the first documentary that asks the hard questions of foreigners who lead campaigns to "save" remote areas from development. Their answers are often disturbing, with racist overtones, but we, in the west, blindly support such campaigns that want to keep people in poverty. Now, for the first time, "Mine Your Own Business" asks local people about their lives and what they want for the future.
Their answers are very often different from what the foreign environmentalists say and what is reported in the mainstream international media.
"Mine Your Own Business" demolishes the consensus that environmentalists are well meaning activists and shows them to be anti-development ideologues who think the poor are happy being poor and don't want the development that we, in the west, take for granted.
"Mine Your Own Business" will be hugely controversial as it makes us all think about the unintended consequences of blindly supporting environmentalist campaigns across the globe. It is a challenge to the green groupthink that allows westerners to deny progress to those who need it most.
Following the screening of the film, there will be a panel discussion.
