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This is the type of thing only a member of a doomsday cult would care about, would even think about finding out, and then writing about it. But, it makes good blog material for those of us who laugh at the cult, like Green Jihad, where I first saw this

Disney’s Snow White had higher carbon emissions than the latest Fast & Furious film

At a screening of the new Snow White movie in London last month, influencers walked through an artificial fairytale forest, complete with a full-size thatched cottage filled with models of furry animals. In the US, Disney paraded an actual bunny in a brown knitted jumper down the red carpet at the film’s Hollywood premiere.

But the film’s theme of being at one with nature seems not to have extended to the real-life environment, with company documents showing the making of Snow White generated more greenhouse gas emissions in the UK than the latest Fast & Furious film, despite the latter’s reliance on an array of gas-guzzling cars.

Analysis of more than 250 sets of filings from the Walt Disney Company reveals that the live action remakes of Snow White and another animated classic, The Little Mermaid, created more pollution than any of its other movies made in the UK since 2019, when the environmental reporting requirement was introduced.

By “pollution” they mean CO2, otherwise known as plant food.

It obliges companies to disclose the emissions generated in the UK, so the global total may be higher. The Little Mermaid, for example, was also filmed in Sardinia, while the Fast and Furious film-makers travelled to Italy and the US.

The combined emissions for Snow White and The Little Mermaid are higher than the annual amount produced by Birmingham and Luton airports. Each movie generated higher emissions than the annual total for Blackpool Pleasure Beach and London’s O2 Arena, where the Snow White influencer event took place.

But, outside of cult world, does anyone really care? Were any of the tiny amount of Snow Woke fans thinking “hey, I wonder what the carbon footprint of the movie is”? The whole thing is nutbar.

Despite being made by an American studio, both Snow White and The Little Mermaid were filmed at Pinewood Studios, just outside London. Studios filming in the UK get up to 25.5% of their spending reimbursed under government plans to incentivise the industry. As part of this process, accounts must be filed for the ­production company behind each movie, showing the cost of making the movie and the emissions generated in the UK.

That’s nuts, both for the need to calculate the carbon footprint and being reimbursed. It’s one thing to have a tax break to film, something else to give taxpayer money to film, especially if the movie will make money. And, Snow Woke would probably have lost money even without Rachel Zelger opening her big mouth, and that lefties hate Gal Godot because she is Jewish and Israeli.

Consider that Minecraft, which was panned by reviewers as bad as Snow Woke, has made $157 million in the US and Canada and $144 internationally on it’s first weekend. I think it is stupid, but, people went for apparently just good, message free fun. Snow Woke will probably lose about $115 million. And the climate cult is upset with it!