James Cameron – Grow Up

James Cameron – Grow Up
Written by Ann McElhinney
Monday, 22 February 2010 21:30

I thought Avatar was a great film, beautiful even. Cameron is such a good story teller he even had me rooting for the blue rain forest people and wishing death on all the appalling Americans in final battle scene.

But seriously, James Cameron grow up.

Avatar is an anti-mining, anti resource development rant worthy of a not very clever spotty undergraduate.

James Cameron is a self confessed unrepentant greenie, and in the world he creates mining is evil and life in the rain forest is just spiffing. So lets throw a few facts in the way of Cameron’s gorgeous but idiotic narrative.

Mining makes everything about James Cameron’s life and our lives in the developed world, beautiful, possible, bearable, majestic, gorgeous and full of promise. The people of the rainforest on the other hand who live the simple, organic, back to nature life so adored by the Hollywood elite such as James Cameron, also have short lives of misery, disease and squalor. They would do anything to have a piece of the James Cameron life and escape their subsistence hunter-gathering nightmare.

So James Cameron hear it one more time - Grow Up.

Mining companies bring jobs, roads, infrastructure, health clinics and opportunities to some of the poorest people on the planet.

James Cameron, even more than rest of us, uses the earth’s resources for his pleasure and his very profitable business. His films all employ enormous quantities of heavy metals in planes, boats, trains and the latest cutting edge camera, lighting and computer technology.

Everything about Cameron's work uses metals mined from somewhere and his gigantic transport needs are fueled by oil.

So grow up James Cameron.

Having spent the most depressing two weeks of my life at the charade that was the Climate festival in Copenhagen I am particularly sensitive to the James Cameron idiocy. Like the 45,000 hyper-educated and pampered fools who attended that conference James Cameron bangs away on his computer objecting to mining and celebrating the indigenous life without ever realizing that the computer would not exist without mining.

So I have a suggestion James Cameron, go and live there, burn whatever passports you possess and do it, live it, be that guy who walks the walk with no escape route back to the unnatural but fabulous life of development. Go to the rainforest, try it and see just how awful it is to live without electricity, computers, roads and medicines that come with modernity.

Or if you don't want to do that I have a suggestion.

James Cameron, please, please Grow Up!

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Comment by fireguy on March 4, 2010 at 12:54pm: The Gladiators busted their asses to give the Romans "quality entertainment" while the elite enslaved and persecuted the masses. Bread and circuses man, bread and circuses.

Comment by Gilgamesh on March 4, 2010 at 12:47am: Wow, this is great. I mean really great. James Cameron produces the highest internationally grossing movie of all time (for the second time), bringing joy and a temporary escape from the doom and gloom of the real world for millions upon millions, and you criticize him? The movie was great, as are most all of his films. You'd really have to have little to no life to sit around nit-picking someone who busts his ass to give the rest of us quality entertainment.

Comment by fireguy on March 2, 2010 at 2:34pm: I think the movie was a cartoon and has as much to do with reality as Buggs Bunny.

The point of the article is that Cameron spent 500 million making a movie that propagandizes all resource use as evil, while Mr. Cameron and the rest of the greenie rich use more natural resources than anyone else. Kind of like people flying private jets and driving big limos at the Copenhagen global warming hoax conference, or Al Gore living in a huge mansion and flying around the world saying we should not have big houses or drive one type of vehicle or another. The point is the hypocracy of the elite. When James Cameron and Al Gore give up their billions and go and live in caves with no toilet paper I'll listen to their tripe, but till then they are just "haves" trying to get more while telling us to do with less.

We can use the earth's natural resources responsibly and increase the quality of life for everyone. We have the technology. We only need the will.

Comment by Marklar on March 2, 2010 at 2:17am: Sorry but I don't see Avatar as an indictment against mining or technology. Rather I see it as a commentary on imperialism (I need it, I want it, and you have it, therefore give it up or I'll kill you and take it). Truth be told, it's one of the oldest and most frequent stories of human existence. It's not like the story took place in Topeka after all. Nor did the Navi travel light years to Earth in order to hold a sit in on land to which the mining company had legal mineral rights.The company had no rights to the ore under the feet of the troublesome Navi except for the right of conquest and this, I believe, is the point he was trying to make.

Personally I very much doubt you would happily tolerate somebody tearing down your house and drilling for oil where it had stood simply because they had the technical know-how to do so and some thugs with guns as the only justification as to why they can.