Celebs Ignore Death, Poverty on MTV Enviro Series

[Tonchi]

Sorry about that, Bruce

Originally Posted by mrnoodle

The idea that the darling little brown people with their funny bead necklaces are CHOOSING poverty and disease because they're so in tune with "nature" is patronizing as hell, not to mention ignorant.

These "picturesque" and "charming" villages like those I have been in must have been downwind of the places where these celebs were being filmed while rhapsodizing over the view and the values that these folks share. Usually the miasma rising from the livestock pens, pit latrines, and natives that have not been able to bathe for a year let alone wash their clothing is enough to stun a moose, so it would probably wilt the makup on Paris Hilton at 500 yards. Another thing which they are conveniently overlooking is the inevitable environmental degredation which usually surrounds these communities. Between scarce water supplies being thoroughly polluted by runoff from the animals and people doing their business nearby, often every stick of wood has been stripped for miles in every direction. Conservation is the luxury of the developed countries, these folks never heard of it.