By on 01/29/2010 in featured, Uncategorized  The Resources
Development Alliance mines Pandora  Under what rock have you
been hiding to miss the movie and ensuing publicity storm around
James Cameron’s environmental parable, Avatar? You’ve certainly
not been cowering beneath a hunk of Unobtanium: it floats. And
in Cameron’s epic, this strange rock is the occasion for a
future conflict on a world far away between the organic,
indigenous Na’vi who take a stand against the imperial, profit-
driven humans, looking to dig the very soul out of the hyper-
lush moon of Pandora.  The film is distributed by Rupert
Murdoch’s News Corporation – the owners of right wing media
across the world. They’ve caught flack from conservative critics
for peddling an “anti-corporate” message, one that’s hostile to
the American way, imputing only malign motives to corporations
and only destructive impulses to capitalism. One imagines the
film’s billion dollar earnings will go some way to soothing
Murdoch’s right-wing conscience.  As for