Back in the mid-90s, the Left was making a big to-do about the book I, Rigoberta Menchu which supposedly showed how awful it was to be a peasant in Central America. (I don’t recall which country, but it doesn’t matter.) Later, it was demonstrated that the book was a fabrication, but Leftists continued to praise it, saying that it was all right to make things up and call them true if it helped to further a righteous cause.
The same thing is true about the movie “The Day After Tomorrow.” The science is bogus, but that’s all right because the movie helps to focus attention on “an important issue.” For a very sharp analysis of the movie and the sky is falling environmentalist mindset, read Art Carden’s von Mises piece here.
