November 14, 2006 1:19PM 

# Hollywood — Green Thyself! 

By [Jerry Taylor](https://www.cato.org/people/jerry-taylor) 

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Next time you run across some [self righteous](http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200511/laurie-david-4.html), [moral preening](http://www.leonardodicaprio.com/) [Hollywood-type](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/05/03/gree.DTL) going on about the environmental doom that awaits us like the Gaian sword of Damocles lest we turn away from our gluttony, our self interest, and money-grubbing capitalist ways, keep this in mind: a [recent study](http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-film14nov14,1,7847005.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true) has found that the movie industry is the second largest source of pollution in LA.

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