GOODY TWO SHOES: Hollywood Movies Are Toxic In More Ways Than One


Rich, pampered Hollywood celebs just love to lecture us workaday folk on how to be environmentally conscious. A two-year UCLA study finds that the film and television industry creates more greenhouse emissions than the aerospace, clothing, hotel and semiconductor industries.

 

When researchers at the school's Institute of the Environment took into account all direct and indirect sources of emissions - including special effects explosions, diesel generators used to power a movie set and a power plant that provides electricity to a studio lot - only petroleum manufacturing created more air pollution in the five-county Los Angeles region than movie-making.

 

The study did note the rare examples of Hollywood attempting to be environmentally responsible. For instance, production companies for the films "The Day After Tomorrow," "Syriana" and "An Inconvenient Truth" planted trees and took other steps to “offset” some of the emissions they produced. And nearly all of the concrete, steel and lumber used to construct the sets for "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" was recycled.

 

The Stiletto thinks that, laudable as these efforts are, much more needs to be done to counteract the pollution generated by Hollywood. If the rest of us stopped watching the dreck that the studios spew, perhaps some of them would be shuttered and fewer films would be made – which means less air pollution in LA and fewer rich, pampered stars hectoring us on how to save the planet.

Posted by The Stiletto at November 15, 2006
Categories: Goody Two Shoes
 

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