By Celsias
Posted on Jan. 25, 2012. Listed in:
"Craig Rosebraugh, a US filmmaker and political activist, has produced a feature-length documentary that demands to be seen. Greedy Lying Bastards is still awaiting a firm release date – sometime in 2012 is the current promise – but, if the trailer and impressive roster of interviewees are anything to go by, it's likely to cause quite a stir.
Filmed over the past two years and across nine countries, Greedy Lying Bastards claims to be a "searing indictment of the influence, deceit and corruption that defines the fossil fuel industry":
Rosebraugh documents the impact of an industry that puts profits before people, wages a campaign of lies to thwart measures to combat climate change, uses its clout to minimize infringing regulations and undermined the political process in the U.S. and abroad…By interweaving the stories of the victims of the Gulf oil spill and the global climate crisis, he lays bare the industry's deliberate pattern of irresponsibility. And, while oil companies worldwide exert influence over policies that will protect their revenues, those who speak out against the industry's reckless practices risk their livelihoods, and in some instances, their lives."
But here's the part that we don't get.Because here are the facts as we see them .
We know the oil industry has been reprehensible in its behaviour for many years.
We know Government departments in NZ failed at Pike River, in leaky housing , even in failing to curb killings of our children
How do we possibly think that we are ever going to be able to control the oil industry in what we know to be the hunt for "extreme energy " - hard to find drilling off our coast, wells all over our land , and fracking which has been banned in many countries but continues with no abatement and with few laws controlling it.
And this is okay in a country that makes it living off the land , its clean water and its brand of 100% Pure.
What part of crazy is someone not seeing ?
