On John Muir and Avatar...

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The Upside of Avatar | Parkeology:

The reality is that Avatar is a stronger marketing hook than Beastly Kingdomme, even if it's not as pure an idea for Animal Kingdom. It comes with some built in expectations: jaw-dropping visual feasts, exotic adventure, and a strong naturalist theme (John Muir would be proud).

Really? He'd be proud of ripping up how many acres of natural pine and Cyprus forest for the sake of a giant plastic electricty-sucking monument to a half-rate film that itself was rendered off of the electricity partly drawn from the Hetch-Hetchy dam project he so detested?

This is the same John Muir who questioned the building of even a tiny chapel in what he believes was the greatest natural cathedral in the world.  Somehow, I disagree with that assessment.

This is not to say that I don't believe Disney's sincerity regarding Animal Kingdom, only that Muir probably would.